Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors by Matt Parker
$24.99 AUD
Category: Mathematics | Reading Level: very good
What makes a bridge wobble when it's not meant to? How do billions of dollars mysteriously vanish into thin air? How does a building rock when its resonant frequency matches a gym class leaping to Snap's 1990 hit I've Got The Power? The answer is maths. Or, to be precise, what happens when maths goes wr ...Show more
Infinite Powers: The Story of Calculus - The Language of the Universe by Steven Strogatz
$22.99 AUD
Category: Mathematics
A magisterial history of calculus (and the people behind it) from one of the world's foremost mathematicians.Praise for Infinite Powers:Simple, lucid, amusing, informative, and a pleasure to read. If you want to know where calculus came from, how it works, what it's good for, and where it's going next, ...Show more
Infinite Powers - The Story of Calculus - the Language of the Universe by Steven Strogatz
$29.99 AUD
Category: Mathematics | Reading Level: very good
A magisterial history of calculus (and the people behind it) from one of the world's foremost popularisers of mathematics, the author of The Joy of X.
Maths Mutt: Graphs by Lorna Hendry
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Category: Mathematics | Series: Maths Mutts Ser.
The latest title from dual-CBCA Honour Award recipient Lorna Hendry. Graphs are a key component of mathematics. They can help us make sense of potentially complicated information, and have practical applications in our everyday lives. Join our maths mutts as they learn all about the wonderful world of ...Show more
Numb and Number by William Hartston
$29.99 AUD
Category: Mathematics
'A wise, witty and insightful guide to clear thinking amid a deluge of percentages and probabilities.' Ian StewartLike it or not, our lives are dominated by mathematics. Our daily diet of news regales us with statistical forecasts, opinion polls, risk assessments, inflation figures, weather and climate ...Show more
Numbercrunch by Oliver Johnson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Mathematics
This is a mathematician's toolkit for cutting through wall-to-wall informationoverload and making sense of our modern world. In our hyper-modern world we are bombarded with more facts, stats and information than ever before. Often these statistics can seem contradictory and say wildly different things d ...Show more
Numbers and the Making of Us - Counting and the Course of Human Cultures by Caleb Everett
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Category: Mathematics
Carved into our past, woven into our present, numbers shape our perceptions of the world and of ourselves much more than we commonly think. Numbers and the Making of Us is a sweeping account of how numbers radically enhanced our species' cognitive capabilities and sparked a revolution in human culture. ...Show more
Numbers in Minutes by Julia Collins
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Category: Mathematics | Series: In Minutes Ser.
The quickest explanation of math, in 200 essential numbers. Why 60 seconds in a minute? Who invented zero? What exactly is pi? Why do mathematicians hunt prime numbers? And how can you get a number bigger than infinity? To find out, take a tour through 200 important, fascinating and unusual numb ...Show more
Pluses and Minuses: How Maths Solves Our Problems by Stefan Buijsman
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Category: Mathematics | Reading Level: very good
You look up from your phone for a moment to order an espresso. It's made with one of those large stainless-steel coffee makers that heats the water until it's precisely the right temperature. It keeps track of how fast the water warms up and uses that to calculate whether it needs to apply more or less ...Show more
Rock, Paper, ScissorsGame Theory in Everyday Life by Len Fisher
$34.99 AUD
Category: Mathematics
Praised by Entertainment Weekly as “the man who put the fizz into physics,” Dr. Len Fisher turns his attention to the science of cooperation in his lively and thought-provoking book. Fisher shows how the modern science of game theory has helped biologists to understand the evolution of cooperation in na ...Show more
Speed Mathematics by Bill Handley
$22.95 AUD
Category: Mathematics
This new, revised edition of the bestselling Speed Mathematics features new chapters on memorising numbers and general information, calculating statistics and compound interest, square roots, logarithms and easy trig calculations. Written so anyone can understand, this book teaches simple strategies tha ...Show more