Math Refresher for Adults: The Perfect Solution (Mastering Essential Math Skills)

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Through lots of intriguing problems, involving card tricks, polar bears and, of course, socks, Rob Eastaway shows shows how maths can demonstrate its secret beauties in even the most mundane of everyday objects. Written by American author Martin Gardner, who passed away in 2010, this book is one in a long line of recreational maths editions he is credited with. In 1859, the brilliant German mathematician Bernhard Riemann put forward a hypothesis which finally seemed to reveal a magical harmony at work in the numerical landscape.

This fabulous book covers the history of codes and code breaking from Ancient Egypt through to Quantum Cryptography. solved problems - like the Poincaré Conjecture, cracked by the eccentric genius Grigori Perelman, who refused academic honours and a million-dollar prize for his work, and problems which, like the Riemann Hypothesis, remain baffling after centuries. Calculus has a fierce reputation as complicated, abstract and difficult, but Steven Strogatz tells the true story of its beauty and simplicity. When you start reading, you will realize that, the book is a powerful criticism on the prevalent curriculum of Mathematics in elementary, middle and high schools.Kovalev will look after the children while Riley is working on the show, taking the baby in for breastfeeding when she's on a break. More than just the study of numbers, mathematics provides us with the eyes to recognize and describe the hidden patterns of life. In this book, Professor Tony Crilly explains in 50 clear and concise essays the mathematical concepts - ancient and modern, theoretical and practical, everyday and esoteric - that allow us to understand and shape the world around us.

Lots of the books in this post have been recommended by people who credit them with inspiring them to do maths in later life.Journey through Genius displays how the world's greatest mathematicians today and back throughout history have dealt with and presented their theories.