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  • Mastering Numbers 9781848992559 Paperback

    Mastering Numbers

    Andrew Jeffrey

    Paperback

    The perfect antidote to numbers-phobia, this clear, concise guide explains everything you need to know about arithmetic, fractions, statistics, probability, algebra and geometry.

    £9.99
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  • Instant Mathematics 9781787393240 Paperback

    Instant Mathematics

    Paul Parsons

    Paperback

    Instant Mathematics pulls together all the pivotal mathematical theories and discoveries into one concise volume.

    £14.99
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  • How to Solve It 9780140124996 Paperback

    How to Solve It

    George Polya

    Paperback

    A 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.

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  • The Times Codeword 3 9780007437962 Paperback

    The Times Codeword 3

    The Times Mind Games

    Paperback

    Challenge yourself at home with word and number puzzles The Times2 popular daily puzzle is back, with a third volume of 150 utterly addictive codewords.

    £7.99
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  • The Numbers Game 9780241963623 Paperback

    The Numbers Game

    Chris Anderson, David Sally

    Paperback

    What 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.

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  • Why do Buses Come in Threes? 9781911622277 Hardback

    Why do Buses Come in Threes?

    Rob Eastaway, Jeremy Wyndham

    Hardback

    An entertaining guide to how maths is relevant to our everyday lives. 

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  • The Great Mathematical Problems 9781846683374 Paperback

    The Great Mathematical Problems

    Professor Ian Stewart

    Paperback

    There 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.

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  • Codebreaking 9781472144218 Paperback

    Codebreaking

    Elonka Dunin, Klaus Schmeh

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    A 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.

    £16.99
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  • Numbercrunch 9781788708371 Paperback

    Numbercrunch

    Professor Oliver Johnson

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    This is a mathematician's toolkit for cutting through wall-to-wall information overload and making sense of our modern world.

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  • A Year in Numbers 9781838958916 Hardback

    A Year in Numbers

    Kyle D. Evans

    Hardback

    A collection of 365 numerical nuggets - one for each day of the year

    £12.99
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  • Mathematics is the Poetry of Science 9780198846437 Paperback

    Mathematics is the Poetry of Science

    Cedric Villani (Professor, Professor, University of Lyon)

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    Shorter 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.

    £14.49
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  • Numbercrunch 9781788708333 Hardback

    Numbercrunch

    Professor Oliver Johnson

    Hardback

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  • Number Freaking 9781840467512 Paperback

    Number Freaking

    Gary Rimmer

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    £7.99
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  • How Many Socks Make a Pair? 9781781313244 Paperback

    How Many Socks Make a Pair?

    Rob Eastaway

    Paperback

    How 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.

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  • Adam Spencer's Maths 101 9781743797617 Paperback

    Adam Spencer's Maths 101

    Adam Spencer

    Paperback

    Maths explained for number challenged parents and children

    £20.00
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  • Numbers - 10 Things You Should Know 9781841885636 Hardback

    Numbers - 10 Things You Should Know

    Colin Stuart

    Hardback

    Discover the ten things we all should know about mathematics in this fascinating collection of short essays

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  • Professor Stewart's Incredible Numbers 9781781254516 Paperback

    Professor Stewart's Incredible Numbers

    Professor Ian Stewart

    Paperback

    The bestselling Ian Stewart tackles his biggest subject yet: the weird and wonderful world of numbers, from zero to infinity.

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  • How to Think About Abstract Algebra 9780198843382 Paperback

    How to Think About Abstract Algebra

    Lara Alcock (Reader and Head of Department, Mathematics, Reader and Head of Department, Mathematics, Education Centre, Loughborough University)

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    How to Think about Abstract Algebra provides an engaging and readable introduction to its subject, which encompasses group theory and ring theory.

    £21.49
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  • Chaos 9780749386061 Paperback

    Chaos

    James Gleick

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    Brings together work in the field of chaos theory, an extension of classical mechanics, in which simple and complex causes are seen to interact.

    £12.99
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  • Eight Lessons on Infinity 9781786781840 Paperback

    Eight Lessons on Infinity

    Haim Shapira

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    A fun, non-technical and wonderfully engaging guide to that most powerful and mysterious of mathematical concepts: infinity.

    £10.99
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  • Zero 9780285635944 Paperback

    Zero

    Charles Seife

    Paperback

    This 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.

    £10.99
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  • Maths Unwrapped 9781473696129 Paperback

    Maths Unwrapped

    Mattias Ribbing, Per Sundin

    Paperback

    Unwrap the puzzle of maths forever with this engaging guide to learning how to do maths and remember it.

    £14.99
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  • Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures 9781846683466 Paperback

    Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures

    Professor Ian Stewart

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    Presents 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.

    £8.99
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  • Thinking in Numbers 9781444737448 Paperback

    Thinking in Numbers

    Daniel Tammet

    Paperback

    Mathematical 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.

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  • How to Free Your Inner Mathematician 9780198843597 Hardback

    How to Free Your Inner Mathematician

    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)

    Hardback

    How 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.

    £32.49
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