'If people do not believe that mathematics is simple,
it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.'
John von Neumann
Mathematics can tell you things about the world that can't be learned in any other way. This hugely informative and wonderfully entertaining little book answers one hundred essential questions about existence. It unravels the knotty, clarifies the conundrums and sheds light into dark corners. From winning the lottery, placing bets at the races and escaping from bears to sports, Shakepeare, Google, game theory, drunks, divorce settlements and dodgy accounting; from chaos to infinity and everything in between, 100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know has all the answers!
John D. Barrow is Professor of Mathematical Sciences and Director of the Millennium Mathematics Project at Cambridge University, Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge, a Fellow of the Royal Society, and the current Gresham Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London. His principal area of scientific research is cosmology, and he is the author of many highly acclaimed books about the nature and significance of modern developments in physics, astronomy, and mathematics, including The Origin of the Universe; The Universe that Discovered Itself; The Book of Nothing; The Constants of Nature; The Infinite Book: a Short Guide to the Boundless, Timeless and Endless, The Artful Universe Expanded, and New Theories of Everything, and 100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know. He is also the author of the award-winning play Infinities.
Title: 100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know
Author: John D. Barrow
ISBN: 9781847920034
Binding:
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Publication Date: 2008-10-16
Number of Pages: 304
Weight: 0.3584 kg
Need a Christmas present for someone who likes interesting facts, with a mathematical flavour? Then this is the book.'... a pot pourri of intriguing things * Standpoint *
it would be hard to imagine an easier, friendlier, more entertaining introduction (to maths) than John Barrow's 100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know... There are even belly laughs * Daily Telegraph *
Fascinating * Scotsman *
