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The Maths That Made Us - how numbers created civilisation (Paperback)
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The Maths That Made Us - how numbers created civilisation (Paperback)
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List price R315
Loot Price R281
Discovery Miles 2 810
You Save R34 (11%)
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Quadratic equations, Pythagoras' theorem, imaginary numbers, and pi
- you may remember studying these at school, but did anyone ever
explain why? Never fear - bestselling science writer, and your new
favourite maths teacher, Michael Brooks, is here to help. In The
Maths That Made Us, Brooks reminds us of the wonders of numbers:
how they enabled explorers to travel far across the seas and
astronomers to map the heavens; how they won wars and halted the
HIV epidemic; how they are responsible for the design of your home
and almost everything in it, down to the smartphone in your pocket.
His clear explanations of the maths that built our world, along
with stories about where it came from and how it shaped human
history, will engage and delight. From ancient Egyptian priests to
the Apollo astronauts, and Babylonian tax collectors to juggling
robots, join Brooks and his extraordinarily eccentric cast of
characters in discovering how maths made us who we are today.
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