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Seventeen Equations That Changed the World by Ian Stewart
22.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
This is a unique history of humanity told through its seventeen defining equations; from Pythagoras to Calculus. From Newton's Law of Gravity to the Black-Scholes model used by bankers to predict the markets, equations, are everywhere - and they are fundamental to everyday life. "Seventeen Equations tha ...Show more
Significant Figures: Lives and Works of Trailblazing Mathematicians by Ian Stewart
32.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Which mathematician elaborated a crucial concept the night before he died in a duel? Who funded his maths and medical career through gambling and chess? Who learned maths from her wallpaper? Ian Stewart presents the extraordinary lives and amazing discoveries of twenty-five of history's greatest mathema ...Show more
Significant Figures - Lives and Works of Trailblazing Mathematicians by Ian Stewart
22.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Which mathematician elaborated a crucial concept the night before he died in a duel? Who funded his maths and medical career through gambling and chess? Who learned maths from her wallpaper? Ian Stewart presents the extraordinary lives and amazing discoveries of twenty-five of history's greatest mathema ...Show more
The Beauty of Numbers in Nature - Mathematical Patterns and Principles from the Natural World by Ian Stewart
29.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History | Reading Level: very good
From a zebra's stripes to a spider's web: an engaging examination of patterns in nature and the mathematics that underlie them. From a zebra's stripes to a spider's web, from sand dunes to snowflakes, nature is full of patterns underlaid by mathematical principles. In The Beauty of Numbers in Nature, Ia ...Show more
The Great Mathematical Problems by Ian Stewart
32.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Ian Stewart reveals the really big questions that take us to the limits of mathematics. There are some mathematical problems whose significance goes beyond the ordinary - like Fermat's Last Theorem or Goldbach's Conjecture - they are the enigmas which define mathematics. "The Great Mathematical Problems ...Show more
Visions of Infinity: The Great Mathematical Problems by Ian Stewart
27.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
It is one of the wonders of mathematics that, for every problem mathematicians solve, another awaits to perplex and galvanize them. Some of these problems are new, while others have puzzled and bewitched thinkers across the ages. Such challenges offer a tantalizing glimpse of the field’s unlimited poten ...Show more
What's the Use?: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics by Ian Stewart
24.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
A bestselling author tries to rehabilitate a much-maligned field.
What's the Use? The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics by Ian Stewart
29.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
A bestselling author tries to rehabillitate a much-maligned field.