Breakthrough to Math
Author : Stephanie Irwin
Publisher :
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 12,8 MB
Release : 1992-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780883368060
Author : Stephanie Irwin
Publisher :
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 12,8 MB
Release : 1992-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780883368060
Author : Richard Elwes
Publisher : Quercus
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,44 MB
Release : 2013-12-03
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781623650544
Richard Elwes is a writer, teacher and researcher in Mathematics, visiting fellow at the University of Leeds, and contributor to numerous popular science magazines. He is a committed and recognized popularizer of mathematics. Of Elwes, Sonder Books 2011 Standouts said, "Dr. Elwes is brilliant at giving the reader the broad perspective, with enough details to fascinate, rather than confuse." Math in 100 Key Breakthroughs offers a series of short, clear-eyed essays explaining the fundamentals of the mathematical concepts everyone should know. Professor Richard Elwes profiles the most important, groundbreaking, and astonishing discoveries, which together have profoundly influenced our understanding of the universe. From the origins of counting--traced back to more than 35,000 years ago--to such contemporary breakthroughs as Wiles' Proof of Fermat's Last Theorem and Cook & Woolfram's Rule 110, this compulsively readable book tells the story of discovery, invention, and inspiration that have led to humankind's most important mathematical achievements.
Author : New Readers Press
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 32,60 MB
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781564209757
Author : New Readers Press
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 41,25 MB
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Algebra
ISBN : 9781564209931
Author : Ann K. U. Tussing
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 29,1 MB
Release : 1983-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780883368343
Author : Ann K. U. Tussing
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,81 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Literacy
ISBN :
Author : Stephanie Irwin
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,49 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Mathematics
ISBN :
Author : New Readers Press
Publisher :
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 36,66 MB
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Arithmetic
ISBN : 9781564208774
Author : Masha Gessen
Publisher : Icon Books Ltd
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 30,80 MB
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1848313098
In 2006, an eccentric Russian mathematician named Grigori Perelman solved one of the world's greatest intellectual puzzles. The Poincare conjecture is an extremely complex topological problem that had eluded the best minds for over a century. In 2000, the Clay Institute in Boston named it one of seven great unsolved mathematical problems, and promised a million dollars to anyone who could find a solution. Perelman was awarded the prize this year - and declined the money. Journalist Masha Gessen was determined to find out why. Drawing on interviews with Perelman's teachers, classmates, coaches, teammates, and colleagues in Russia and the US - and informed by her own background as a math whiz raised in Russia - she set out to uncover the nature of Perelman's astonishing abilities. In telling his story, Masha Gessen has constructed a gripping and tragic tale that sheds rare light on the unique burden of genius.
Author : Robert Snedden
Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 11,42 MB
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 178950287X
From early humans carving notches in bones to the discovery of quantum mechanics and chaos theory - mathematics has certainly come a long way. Fully illustrated and augmented with helpful timelines and diagrams, Problem Solved! explores some of history's greatest mathematical breakthroughs. Covering topics from Ancient Egyptian geometry to chaos theory, readers will learn about Euclid of Alexandria, Brahmagupta, Sir Isaac Newton, Alan Turing and more. Whether solving practical or abstract problems, these mathematicians have each sought to improve our lives, and have bought us to the world we know today. With each concept explained in easy-to-understand language, there's no need to be a calculus genius to marvel at these incredible feats of problem-solving brilliance.