501 things you should have learned about ... math
Publisher: Metro Books/Sterling Pub.
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781435146136
Subjects: Mathematics; History; Fermat's theorem; Topology
Other titles: Five hundred one things you should have learned about math; Five hundred and one things you should have learned about math
Notes: Includes index.

If you're honest how much do you really know about any of this stuff? The older we get the less we seem to know and the less time we have to bone up on the essentials. One day, you tell yourself, you'll get round to finding out. Well hat day has arrived, so welcome to your intensive, instructive primer. This eminently browsable book presents history's greatest mathematicians and mathematical discoveries in fascinating, easy-to-understand chunks. You'll learn about Archimedes, Pythagoras, Isaac Newton and how their experiments and breakthroughs have changed the world. You'll learn how 'zero' came to life, how geometry was discovered and how mathematicians throughout history have cracked the world's most challenging conundrums. So if you don't know your Fibonacci from your tagliatelle what are you waiting for? Read and enjoy!
Table of contents: title: If you're honest how much do you really know about any of this stuff? The older we get the less we seem to know and the less time we have to bone up on the essentials. One day, you tell yourself, you'll get round to finding out. Well hat day has arrived, so welcome to your intensive, instructive primer. This eminently browsable book presents history's greatest mathematicians and mathematical discoveries in fascinating, easy-to-understand chunks. You'll learn about Archimedes, Pythagoras, Isaac Newton and how their experiments and breakthroughs have changed the world. You'll learn how 'zero' came to life, how geometry was discovered and how mathematicians throughout history have cracked the world's most challenging conundrums. So if you don't know your Fibonacci from your tagliatelle what are you waiting for? Read and enjoy!