KES Library
Maths
Alex's Adventures in Numberland Alex Bellos
In search of weird and wonderful mathematical phenomena, Alex Bellos travels across the globe and meets the world's fastest mental calculators in Germany and a startlingly numerate chimpanzee in Japan. 510
30 Second Maths Richard Brown
510
From Rubik's cubes to Godel's incompleteness theorem, everything mathematical explained, with colour illustrations, in half a minute. Read at your own pace, and discover that maths can be more fascinating than you ever imagined.
Beyond Infinity Eugenia Cheng How can one little symbol - ∞ hold the biggest idea of all? Eugenia Cheng explores the inner workings of this powerful, counterintuitive concept to shed light on the fundamental truths at the heart of mathematics. 511.3
Maths 1001 Richard Elwes
510
Maths 1001 provides clear and concise explanations of the most fascinating and fundamental mathematical concepts. Whether used as a handy reference, an informal self-study course or simply as a gratifying dip-in, this book offers - in one volume - a world of mathematical knowledge for the general reader.
Infinity in your Pocket Mike Flynn Rational and irrational numbers, Fibonacci series, fractals, statistics, trigonometry, Newton’s laws, atoms and molecules, Euclidean mathematics and Boolean logic. Infinity in Your Pocket is an essential reference book filled with maths and science facts and figures you need at your fingertips.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime Mark Haddon
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Find this book downstairs with the other fiction
15-year old Christopher has a photographic memory. He understands maths. He understands science. What he can’t understand are other human beings. When he finds his neighbour’s dog lying dead on the lawn, he decided to track down the killer and write a murder mystery about it. But what other mysteries will he end up uncovering?
The Math Behind the Music Leon Harkleroad Mathematics has been used for centuries to describe, analyze, and create music. In this book, Leon Harkleroad explores the math related aspects of music from its acoustical bases to compositional techniques to music criticism. 512.7
Humble Pi : A Comedy of Maths Errors, Matt Parker
510.2
Modern lives are built on maths: computer programmes, finance, and engineering. And most of the time this maths works quietly behind the scenes, until ... it doesn't. Exploring and explaining glitches, near-misses and mishaps, Matt Parker shows us the bizarre ways maths trips us up, and what this reveals about its essential place in our world.
The Number Mysteries Marcus du Sautoy
510.2
In The Num8er My5teries, Marcus du Sautoy brings to life the beauty behind five mathematical puzzles that have contributed to our understanding of the world around us and have helped develop the technology to cope with it.
Zero : The Biography of a Dangerous Idea Charles Seife
513.5
Within the concept of zero lies a philosophical and scientific history of Mankind. This book takes us from Aristotle to superstring theory by way of Egyptian geometry, Kabbalism, Einstein, the Chandrasekhar limit and Stephen Hawking. Covering centuries of thought, it is a concise tour of a world of ideas, bound up in the simple notion of nothing.
The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets Simon Singh
510
In The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets, Simon Singh explains how a team of mathematically trained writers have smuggled maths jokes into dozens of episodes, exploring everything from pi to Mersenne primes, from Euler’s equation to the unsolved riddle of P vs NP, from perfect numbers to narcissistic numbers, and much more. Fermat's Last Theorem Simon Singh
512.74
For over 350 years, proving Fermat's Last Theorem was the most notorious unsolved mathematical problem, a puzzle whose basics most children could grasp but whose solution eluded the greatest minds in the world. In 1993, after years of secret toil, Englishman Andrew Wiles announced that he had cracked Fermat's Last Theorem!
Art of Statistics : Learning from Data, David Spiegelhalter How many trees are there on the planet? Do busier hospitals have higher survival rates? Why do old men have big ears? Spiegelhalter reveals the answers to these and many other questions - questions that can only be addressed using statistical science. 519.5
The Beauty of Numbers in Nature, Ian Stewart 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, Ian Stewart shows how life forms from the principles of mathematics. 510
The Great Mathematical Problems, Ian Stewart
510
There are some mathematical problems whose significance goes beyond the ordinary. 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.
Letters to a Young Mathematician, Ian Stewart
510
In this book, Ian Stewart takes up subjects ranging from the philosophical to the practicalwhat mathematics is and why it's worth doing, the relationship between logic and proof, the role of beauty in mathematical thinking, the future of mathematics, how to deal with the peculiarities of the mathematical community, and many others.
Nature’s Numbers Ian Stewart
510
Why do many flowers have five or eight petals, but very few six or seven? Why do snowflakes have sixfold symmetry? Why do tigers have stripes but leopards have spots? Mathematics is to nature as Sherlock Holmes is to evidence. In this book, Ian Stewart takes you ‘sightseeing’ in a mathematician’s world…
Seventeen Equations that Changed the World Ian Stewart 512.94
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 that Changed the World examines seventeen ground-breaking equations that have altered the course of human history.
Infinite Powers Steven Strogatz Filled with idiosyncratic characters from Pythagoras to Fourier, Infinite Powers is a compelling human drama that reveals the legacy of calculus on nearly every aspect of modern civilisation, including science, politics, medicine, philosophy, and much besides. 515
The Magic of M. C. Escher Erik Thé
759.92 ESC
M. C. Escher became known for his mathematically-inspired artwork. Those interested in Geometry will delight in Escher’s rendering of impossible objects, tessellations, symmetry and perspective in this full-colour book featuring Escher’s bestknown works.
The Library Catalogue Did you know you can find even more books on this subject on the library catalogue? You can search by author, title or topic by using keywords! Some keywords related to Maths: Algebra, calculus, equations, geometry, logic, probability, theorems, popular maths
Some prominent authors: Alex Bellos, Matt Parker, Marcus du Sautoy, Ian Stewart, Simon Singh.
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