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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 numbers - the easy and
entertaining way to grasp mathematics. Numbers in Minutes
demystifies the maths surrounding the key numbers including: zero,
1-40, negatives, percentages, prime numbers, fractions, decimals,
pi, exponentials, imaginary numbers, squares and cubes, roots and
powers, Fibonacci numbers, the golden ratio, millions and
trillions, a googol, 'perfect,' 'kissing,' 'vampire' and 'weird'
numbers, infinity, infinity+1 and other sizes of infinity... Every
number is explained in a few short paragraphs with a helpful
picture, making the maths simple to understand and remember.
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Paradox Child (Paperback)
Kim Kim Biddulph; Illustrated by Julia Collins; Edited by George Slater
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R260
Discovery Miles 2 600
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Copyright June 2013 J Yates Set in the 1980's most of the drama for
this time traveling adventure is set in the Pitt Rivers Museum
Oxford UK. Lilly's family has an extraordinary secret, one they
have kept for four generations. Lilly's proud to be different and
special. At Hallowe'en she's happy to stay at home and cast spells
with her mum and her gran rather than go out trick or treating like
the other kids. At 12 years old, she thinks she knows it all. But
then Lilly becomes unsettled by odd events, like seeing the
sinister man in the white shoes staring at her while she walks the
dogs, and then local children start to go missing. When her mum
doesn't come back from one of her regular night-time jaunts,
Lilly's gran thinks it's time to tell her the whole story. Lilly
has second thoughts about whether her family's secret is a
blessing, or a curse...
At a time of great loss, nothing heals like the power of
friendship. Time heals all wounds, they say. But when your husband
dies suddenly, on a glorious sunny day when all he did was go to
work, it takes more than the passage of time to get you through. It
takes the love and support of women who are exactly where you
are--and when you're lucky enough to find them, you cling to each
other until you're strong enough to stand on your own. The truths
you discover in the process are universal, compelling, and
altogether inspiring. That was the lesson learned by Pattie
Carrington, Julia Collins, Claudia Gerbasi, and Ann Haynes, four
thirty-something women whose husbands worked at the World Trade
Center. Before September 11, 2001, they didn't know each other, but
in the months following that horrible day they came together, drawn
as much by their diverse backgrounds as their shared tragedy. At
their very first meeting, the foursome realized their bond was too
special to ignore, and in no time their Widows Club had cemented
into a source of hope and, soon, love that saw them through their
darkest hours, and forward. They took to signing off emails and
phone conversations with a lighthearted phrase: Love You, Mean It.
"Feeling this love for one another meant our hearts were beginning
to open again. It was a risk--love brought with it the ever-present
possibility of loss. But this was a risk worth taking. More than
ever, we understood how important it was to put love at the center
of our lives." A celebration of friendship, optimism, and empathy,
Love You, Mean It is a shared memoir of rebuilt lives. It will
offer hope to anyone who has suffered a loss, and exhilarate
readers from coast to coast.
Can you explain Fermat's Last Theorem? What is the shape of the
Universe? And how do you add up to infinity? Challenge yourself
with Get Smart: Maths and learn to think and talk like the world's
greatest mathematical geniuses. Taking you on a journey through the
mathematical ideas that underpin our world - from imaginary numbers
and Turing machines to chaos theory and mathematical paradoxes;
from the search for primes and game theory to relativity and the
arithmetic of altruism - Get Smart: Maths demystifies 50 key
concepts and provides you with the tools to master the very biggest
ideas. Includes: imaginary numbers; the riemann hypothesis;
mathematical paradoxes; chaos theory; code breaking; Goedel's
incompleteness theorem; topology; the Poincare conjecture; game
theory; the maths of symmetry; calculus; Turing machines; fractals;
the prisoner's dilemma; primes; knot theory; probability and
statistics; the Monty Hall problem . . . and many more.
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