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Author Crilly, A. J., author.

Title 50 maths ideas you really need to know / Tony Crilly.

Publication Info. London [England] : Quercus, [2014]
Boston, Massachusetts : Credo Reference, 2016.

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Edition [Enhanced Credo edition]
Description 1 online resource (54 entries) : 127 images ; digital files.
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Note Originally published as 50 mathematical ideas you really need to know, 2007.
Contents Zero -- Number systems -- Fractions -- Squares and square roots -- pi -- e -- Infinity -- Imaginary numbers -- Primes -- Perfect numbers -- Fibonacci numbers -- Golden rectangles -- Pascal's triangle -- Algebra -- Euclid's algorithm -- Logic -- Proof -- Sets -- Calculus -- Constructions -- Triangles -- Curves -- Topology -- Dimension -- Fractals -- Chaos -- The parallel postulate -- Discrete geometry -- Graphs -- The four-colour problem -- Probability -- Baye's theory -- The birthday problem -- Distributions -- The normal curve -- Connecting data -- Genetics -- Groups -- Matrices -- Codes -- Advanced counting -- Magic squares -- Latin squares -- Money mathematics -- The diet problem -- The travelling salesperson -- Game theory -- Relativity -- Fermat's last theorem -- The Riemann hypothesis.
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Summary In 50 Maths Ideas You Really Need to Know, Professor Tony Crilly explains in 50 clear and concise essays the mathematical concepts - ancient and modern, theoretical and practical, everyday and esoteric - that allow us to understand and shape the world around us.
System Details Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Note Description based on title page of print version.
Subject Mathematics -- Miscellanea.
Mathematics -- Popular works.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Credo Reference (Firm), distributor.
Added Title Fifty maths ideas you really need to know.
Other Form: Print version: 1848667051 9781848667051 208 pages : illustrations
ISBN 9781785397288 electronic version
1848667051 hardback
9781848667051 hardback

 
    
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