Name: 50 Mathematics Ideas You Really Need To Know
Format: EPUB
ISBN: 1847240089
Language: English
Length: 208 Pages
Genre: Non-Fiction
Beginning with zero itself and concluding with the last great unsolved problem, this book introduces the origins of mathematics from Egyptian fractions to Roman numerals; explains the near mystical significance of pi and primes, Fibonacci numbers and the golden ratio; tells you the things they didnâ™t at school – what calculus, statistics and algebra can actually do, and the very real uses of imaginary numbers; illuminates the big ideas of relativity, chaos theory, fractals, genetics and hyperspace; reveals the unspoken reasoning behind Sudoku and code cracking, lotteries and gambling, money management and compound interest; and explores the latest mind shattering developments, including the solving of Fermatâ™s last theorem and the million dollar question of the Riemann hypothesis.