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The Story of Mathematics: From Creating the Pyramids to Exploring Infinity

Anne Rooney
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Description:‘In order to understand the universe you must know the language in which it is written. And that language is mathematics.’
Galileo (1564-1642)

For hundreds of thousands of years, we have sought order in the apparent chaos of the universe. Mathematics has been our most valuable tool in that search, uncovering the patterns and rules that govern our world and beyond. The Story of Mathematics traces humankind’s greatest achievements, plotting a journey from innumerate cave-dwellers, through the towering mathematical intellects of the last 4,000 years, to where we stand today.

Topics 
• Counting and measuring from the earliest times
•The Ancient Egyptians and geometry
•Working out the movement of the planets
•Algebra, solid geometry and the trigonometric tables
• The first computers
•How statistics came to rule our finances
•Impossible shapes and extra dimensions
•Measuring and mapping the world
•Chaos theory and fuzzy logic
Set theory and the death of numbers

The fascinating personalities behind world-changing discoveries in mathematics are profiled, including Euclid, Apollonius, Pythagoras, Brahmagupta, Aryabhata, Liu Hui, Omar Khayyam, al-Khwarizmi, Napier, Galileo, Pascal, Newton, Leibniz, Gauss, Riemann, Russell and many more.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Story of Mathematics: From Creating the Pyramids to Exploring Infinity. To get started finding The Story of Mathematics: From Creating the Pyramids to Exploring Infinity, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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The Story of Mathematics: From Creating the Pyramids to Exploring Infinity

Anne Rooney
4.4/5 (1290744 ratings)
Read Now Download now ⏭ listen AudioBook
Description: ‘In order to understand the universe you must know the language in which it is written. And that language is mathematics.’
Galileo (1564-1642)

For hundreds of thousands of years, we have sought order in the apparent chaos of the universe. Mathematics has been our most valuable tool in that search, uncovering the patterns and rules that govern our world and beyond. The Story of Mathematics traces humankind’s greatest achievements, plotting a journey from innumerate cave-dwellers, through the towering mathematical intellects of the last 4,000 years, to where we stand today.

Topics 
• Counting and measuring from the earliest times
•The Ancient Egyptians and geometry
•Working out the movement of the planets
•Algebra, solid geometry and the trigonometric tables
• The first computers
•How statistics came to rule our finances
•Impossible shapes and extra dimensions
•Measuring and mapping the world
•Chaos theory and fuzzy logic
Set theory and the death of numbers

The fascinating personalities behind world-changing discoveries in mathematics are profiled, including Euclid, Apollonius, Pythagoras, Brahmagupta, Aryabhata, Liu Hui, Omar Khayyam, al-Khwarizmi, Napier, Galileo, Pascal, Newton, Leibniz, Gauss, Riemann, Russell and many more.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Story of Mathematics: From Creating the Pyramids to Exploring Infinity. To get started finding The Story of Mathematics: From Creating the Pyramids to Exploring Infinity, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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1848580355

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