Thinking in numbers
This is the book that Daniel Tammet, bestselling author and mathematical savant, was born to write. In Tammet's world, numbers are beautiful and mathematics illuminates our lives and minds. Using anecdotes and everyday examples, Tammet allows us to share his unique insights and delight in the way numbers, fractions and equations underpin all our lives. Inspired by the complexity of snowflakes, Anne Boleyn's sixth finger or his mother's unpredictable behaviour, Tammet explores questions such as …
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- Full title :Thinking in numbers / by Daniel Tammet.
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This is the book that Daniel Tammet, bestselling author and mathematical savant, was born to write. In Tammet's world, numbers are beautiful and mathematics illuminates our lives and minds. Using anecdotes and everyday examples, Tammet allows us to share his unique insights and delight in the way numbers, fractions and equations underpin all our lives. Inspired by the complexity of snowflakes, Anne Boleyn's sixth finger or his mother's unpredictable behaviour, Tammet explores questions such as why time seems to speed up as we age, whether there is such a thing as an average person and how we can make sense of those we love. Thinking in Numbers will change the way you think about maths and fire your imagination to see the world with fresh eyes.
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- Publication Date:2012.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2012.
Notes
"How maths illuminates our lives"--Jacket.
"Radio 4 book of the week"--Jacket.
The Physical Object
- Description:229 pages ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781444737417, 1444737414, 9781444737400, 1444737406
- oclc:ocn806305241
- LC Classification:QA
- Dewey Decimal:510
Table of Contents
1. Family values -- 2. Eternity in an hour -- 3. Counting to four in Icelandic -- 4. Proverbs and times tables -- 5. Classroom intuitions -- 6. [William] Shakespeare's zero -- 7. Shapes of speech -- 8. On big numbers -- 9. Snowman -- 10. Invisible cities -- 11. Are we alone? -- 12. Calendar of Omar Khayyam -- 13. Counting by elevens -- 14. Admirable number of pi -- 15. [Albert] Einstein's equations -- 16. Novelist's [Leo / Lev Tolstoy] calculus -- 17. Book of books -- 18. Poetry of the primes -- 19. All things are created unequal -- 20. A model mother -- 21. Talking chess -- 22. Selves and statistics -- 23. Cataract of time -- 24. Higher than Heaven -- 25. Art of maths.
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