Mastering Numbers
Andrew Jeffrey
PaperbackThe perfect antidote to numbers-phobia, this clear, concise guide explains everything you need to know about arithmetic, fractions, statistics, probability, algebra and geometry.
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Andrew Jeffrey
PaperbackThe perfect antidote to numbers-phobia, this clear, concise guide explains everything you need to know about arithmetic, fractions, statistics, probability, algebra and geometry.
Paul Parsons
PaperbackInstant Mathematics pulls together all the pivotal mathematical theories and discoveries into one concise volume.
DK
HardbackGeorge Polya
PaperbackA collection of practical lessons that demonstrates how the true mathematician learns to draw unexpected analogies, tackle problems from unusual angles, and extract information from the data.
The Times Mind Games
PaperbackChallenge yourself at home with word and number puzzles The Times2 popular daily puzzle is back, with a third volume of 150 utterly addictive codewords.
Chris Anderson, David Sally
PaperbackWhat if the numbers that really matter, the ones that hold the key to winning matches, are actually 2.66, 53.4, 50/50, and 0 > 1? What if managers only make a 15 per cent difference? What if Chelsea should have bought Darren Bent? This book shows that every shred of knowledge we can gather can help us to love football and understand it even more.
Rob Eastaway, Jeremy Wyndham
HardbackAn entertaining guide to how maths is relevant to our everyday lives.
Professor Ian Stewart
PaperbackSolving mathematical riddles with the world's most popular maths sleuth.
Professor Ian Stewart
PaperbackThere are some mathematical problems whose significance goes beyond the ordinary - like Fermat's Last Theorem or Goldbach's Conjecture. This book explains why these problems exist, why they matter, what drives mathematicians to incredible lengths to solve them and where they stand in the context of mathematics and science as a whole.
Elonka Dunin, Klaus Schmeh
PaperbackA practical guide by two world experts to codebreaking and solving cryptograms. There are tens of thousands of such cryptograms, both modern and historical, many of which remain unsolved. The guide is complemented by both success stories and details of unsolved encryption mysteries.
Professor Oliver Johnson
PaperbackThis is a mathematician's toolkit for cutting through wall-to-wall information overload and making sense of our modern world.
Lewis Carroll
HardbackKyle D. Evans
HardbackA collection of 365 numerical nuggets - one for each day of the year
Instant Guides
PaperbackCedric Villani (Professor, Professor, University of Lyon)
PaperbackShorter and more light-hearted than his theoretical academic works, Mathematics is the Poetry of Science represents Villani's attempt to communicate his love of mathematics to a wider audience, and is an interesting contribution from one of the world's finest living mathematicians.
Professor Oliver Johnson
HardbackGary Rimmer
PaperbackRob Eastaway
PaperbackHow many socks make a pair? The answer is not always two. And behind this question lies a world of maths that can be surprising, amusing and even beautiful.
Adam Spencer
PaperbackMaths explained for number challenged parents and children
Colin Stuart
HardbackDiscover the ten things we all should know about mathematics in this fascinating collection of short essays
Professor Ian Stewart
PaperbackThe bestselling Ian Stewart tackles his biggest subject yet: the weird and wonderful world of numbers, from zero to infinity.
Lara Alcock (Reader and Head of Department, Mathematics, Reader and Head of Department, Mathematics, Education Centre, Loughborough University)
PaperbackHow to Think about Abstract Algebra provides an engaging and readable introduction to its subject, which encompasses group theory and ring theory.
James Gleick
PaperbackBrings together work in the field of chaos theory, an extension of classical mechanics, in which simple and complex causes are seen to interact.
Haim Shapira
PaperbackA fun, non-technical and wonderfully engaging guide to that most powerful and mysterious of mathematical concepts: infinity.
Charles Seife
PaperbackThis informative and easy-to-read book is the story of the people who battled over the meaning of the mysterious number - the scholars and mystics, the scientists and clergymen - who each tried to understand zero.
Mattias Ribbing, Per Sundin
PaperbackUnwrap the puzzle of maths forever with this engaging guide to learning how to do maths and remember it.
Professor Ian Stewart
PaperbackPresents a collection of games, puzzles, paradoxes, brainteasers, and riddles. This title helps you find out: how to organise chaos; how matter balances anti-matter; how to turn a sphere inside out (without creasing it); why you can't comb a hairy ball; and, how to calculate pi by observing the stars.
Daniel Tammet
PaperbackMathematical savant and bestselling author of BORN ON A BLUE DAY, this is Tammet's engaging and personal exploration of what numbers can teach us about our lives and minds.
Susan D'Agostino (Council for the Advancement of Science Writing; Taylor/Blakeslee Fellow, Council for the Advancement of Science Writing; Taylor/Blakeslee Fellow, Johns Hopkins University)
HardbackHow to Free Your Inner Mathematician delivers engaging mathematical content and provides reassurance that mathematical success has more to do with curiosity and drive than innate aptitude, offering readers more than 300 hand-drawn sketches alongside accessible descriptions of topics.
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