Isbn: 9780008283940 - it all adds up: the story of people and mathematics (7 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. It All Adds Up: The Story of People and Mathematics This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping.…

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Paperback. Zustand: As New. 260 pages. light shelf wearFrom our ability to calculate the passing of time to the algorithms that control computers and much else in our lives, numbers are everywhere. They are so indis pensable that we forget how fundamental they are to our way of life. Mickaël La unay mixes history and anecdotes from around the world to reveal how mathematics became pivotal to the story of humankind. It is a journey into numbers with Lau nay as a guide. In museums, monuments or train stations, he uses the objects aro und us to explain what art can reveal about geometry, how Babylonian scholars de veloped one of the first complex written languages, and how 'Arabic' numbers wer e adopted from India. It All Adds Up also tells the story of how mapping the t rajectory of an eclipse has helped to trace the precise day of one of the oldest battles in history, how the course of the modern-day Greenwich Meridian was est ablished, and why negative numbers were accepted just last century.…