How Math Works (How It Works)
Publisher: Readers Digest
Published: July 19, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780762102334
Subjects: Mathematics - Games & Recreations; Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction; Children: Grades 2-3; Science / Mathematical Physics; Mathematics; Popular works
First sentence: THE HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS runs from the ancient Egyptians, to the classical Greek scholars and natural philosophers, to Sir Isaac Newton and calculus, to today, where the purest mathematical study has its application in the exciting world of artificial intelligence and the transfer of digital information.