I Used to Know That: Maths
Published on 27. May 2010
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-1-84317-474-5 (ISBN)
Description
Brush up on your mental arithmetic, including percentages, averages and recurring decimals or work on your trigonometry skills, from Pythagoras Theorem to triangle areas and angles. I Used To Know That: Maths is a fun and accessible way to re-visit all those useful tips and maths tricks that you have forgotten from your school days.
Reviews / Votes
"'a jolly useful old school primer dressed up in postmodern clothes... Everyone will want to dip into this' - Tribune, 6 June 08 'A fun and witty collection of snippets of information we 'used to know' from school.' - Essentials, July 2008 'This is a fascinating book... it will no doubt be a great source of entertainment around many a dinner table during the festive season' - She, December 08"More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 206 mm
Width: 136 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
330 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84317-474-5 (9781843174745)
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Chris Waring
I Used to Know That: Maths
Book
09/2014
Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
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Additional editions
E-Book
05/2012
1st Edition
Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
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Person
Chris Waring was born in London. After a degree in Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London and a short yet disastrous career as a headhunter, he became a maths teacher. Since then he has taught small children and Oxbridge candidates and everybody in between. He has written I Used to Know That: Maths (2010) and From 0 to Infinity in 26 Centuries (2012) for Michael O'Mara Books. He lives in York.