Short Cuts: Maths
Navigate Your Way Through the Big Ideas
Will be published approx. on 12. October 2023
Book
Hardback
160 pages
978-1-83773-109-1 (ISBN)
Description
Your expert guide to mastering the numbers behind the mysteries of modern mathematics.
What with the mysteries of infinity and imaginary numbers, the power of mathematical modelling, and the logic and structures hiding behind real-life situations and digital worlds, the modern landscape of mathematics is an extraordinary place to explore. But how are you expected to navigate this enigmatic and abstract world?
Short Cuts: Maths provides the map you need to start exploring seriously big ideas. Puzzling questions prompt 'short cut' answers written by experts in their field, with each one the setting-off point for instructions to help you plot your path through the mathematical maze.
What with the mysteries of infinity and imaginary numbers, the power of mathematical modelling, and the logic and structures hiding behind real-life situations and digital worlds, the modern landscape of mathematics is an extraordinary place to explore. But how are you expected to navigate this enigmatic and abstract world?
Short Cuts: Maths provides the map you need to start exploring seriously big ideas. Puzzling questions prompt 'short cut' answers written by experts in their field, with each one the setting-off point for instructions to help you plot your path through the mathematical maze.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Duxford
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 159 mm
Width: 238 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
484 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-83773-109-1 (9781837731091)
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Person
Katie Steckles is a mathematician who lectures in mathematics at Sheffield Hallam University. Since completing her PhD in 2011, she has talked about maths in schools, at science and music festivals and in theatre shows, and has appeared on BBC radio and TV programmes including QI. Katie lives in Manchester, England.