Award-winning Steven Strogatz, one of the foremost popularisers of maths, has written a witty and fascinating account of maths'' most compelling ideas and how, so often, they are an integral part of everyday life.
Maths is everywhere, often where we don''t even realiseAward-winning professor Steven Strogatz acts as our guide as he takes us on a tour of numbers that - unbeknownst to the unitiated - connect pop culture, literature, art, philosophy, current affairs, business and even every day life. In The Joy of X, Strogatz explains the great ideas of maths - from negative numbers to calculus, fat tails to infinity - with clarity, wit and insight.
He is the maths teacher you never had and this book is perfect for the smart and curious, the expert and the beginner.
| Format |
Häftad |
| Omfång |
336 sidor |
| Språk |
Engelska |
| Förlag |
Atlantic Books |
| Utgivningsdatum |
2014-03-06 |
| ISBN |
9781848878457 |
