Mathematics Minus Fear: How to Make Math Fun and Beneficial to Your Everyday Life - Tapa dura

Potter, Lawrence

 
9781605983769: Mathematics Minus Fear: How to Make Math Fun and Beneficial to Your Everyday Life
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ISBN 10: 1605983764 ISBN 13: 9781605983769
Editorial: Pegasus Books, 2012

Sinopsis

Forget your classroom nightmares and discover how numbers can enhance and illuminate your world!

How can math help you bet on horses or win in Vegas? What’s the foolproof way to solve Sudoku? How can probability teach you to calculate your chances of survival in Russian roulette?           

In this irreverent and entertaining guide to mathematics, Lawrence Potter takes the fear out of everything from long division to percentages. Using fascinating puzzles and surprising examples, from M.C. Escher to Pascal, he shows us how math is connected with the world we encounter every day, from how the VAT works to why weather forecasts are wrong, from winning at Monopoly to improving your mental arithmetic. Along the way you’ll also discover who invented numbers, whether animals can count, and what nuns have to do with multiplication.

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Acerca del autor

Lawrence Potter attended Oxford University and graduated with a degree in classics  before becoming an adventurous mathematics teacher in Romania and Rwanda. He is the author of This May Help You Understand the World and lives in London.

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Editorial
Pegasus Books
Año de publicación
2012
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1605983764
ISBN 13 
9781605983769
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
273
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9781605985176: Mathematics Minus Fear: How to Make Math Fun and Beneficial to Your Everyday Life

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