Maths Tricks to Blow Your Mind by Kyle D. Evans
$22.99 AUD
Category: Mathematics
A gifty maths book about viral maths problems that have gone wild on social media in recent years.
Numbercrunch by Oliver Johnson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Mathematics
This is a mathematician's toolkit for cutting through wall-to-wall informationoverload and making sense of our modern world. In our hyper-modern world we are bombarded with more facts, stats and information than ever before. Often these statistics can seem contradictory and say wildly different things d ...Show more
Pluses and Minuses: How Maths Solves Our Problems by Stefan Buijsman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Mathematics
You look up from your phone for a moment to order an espresso. It's made with one of those large stainless-steel coffee makers that heats the water until it's precisely the right temperature. It keeps track of how fast the water warms up and uses that to calculate whether it needs to apply more or less ...Show more
Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Absolutely Everything by Jordan Ellenberg
$24.99 AUD
Category: Mathematics
An instant New York Times Bestseller! "Unreasonably entertaining . . . reveals how geometric thinking can allow for everything from fairer American elections to better pandemic planning." --The New York Times From the New York Times-bestselling author of How Not to Be Wrong--himself a world-clas ...Show more
Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Absolutely Everything by Jordan Ellenberg
$35.00 AUD
Category: Mathematics
How should a democracy choose its representatives? How does Covid-19 spread? How do computers teach themselves chess, and why is chess easier for them than analyzing a sentence? What should your kids study in school if they really want to learn to think? All of these are questions about geometry. Seriou ...Show more
Simply Maths: Facts Made Fast by DK
$19.99 AUD
Category: Mathematics
Understanding maths has never been easier.Combining bold, elegant graphics with easy-to-understand text, Simply Maths is the perfect introduction to the subject for those who are short of time but hungry for knowledge.Covering more than 90 key mathematical concepts from prime numbers and fractions to qu ...Show more
Size: How It Explains the World by Vaclav Smil
$35.00 AUD
Category: Mathematics
A mind-expanding exploration size, the measure of all things, from the New York Times bestselling author The New York Times bestselling author returns with a mind-opening exploration of how size defines life on Earth. Explaining the key processes shaping size in nature, society and technology, Smil bust ...Show more
The Art of More: How Mathematics Created Civilisation by Michael Brooks
$32.99 AUD
Category: Mathematics
Bestselling science writer Michael Brooks takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of civilisation, as he explains why maths is fundamental to our understanding of the world.Bestselling science writer Michael Brooks takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of civilisation, as h ...Show more
The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data by David Spiegelhalter
$22.99 AUD
Category: Mathematics | Series: Pelican Bks.
Statistics has played a leading role in our scientific understanding of the world for centuries, yet we are all familiar with the way statistical claims can be sensationalized, particularly in the media. In the age of big data, as data science becomes established as a discipline, a basic grasp of statis ...Show more
The Life-Changing Magic of Numbers by Bobby Seagull
$24.99 AUD
Category: Mathematics
If you found maths lessons at school irrelevant and boring, that's because you didn't have a teacher like Bobby Seagull.***As seen on BBC 2's Monkman & Seagull's Genius Guide to Britain*** Long before his rise to cult fandom on University Challenge, Bobby Seagull was obsessed with numbers. They were ...Show more
The Mathematics of the Gods and the Algorithms of Men - A Cultural History by Paolo Zellini
$22.99 AUD
Category: Mathematics
Is mathematics a discovery or an invention? Do numbers truly exist? What sort of reality do formulas describe? The complexity of mathematics - its abstract rules and obscure symbols - can seem very distant from the everyday. There are those things that are real and present, it is supposed, and then ther ...Show more
The Maths Book (Big Ideas Simply Explained) by .
$39.99 AUD
Category: Mathematics | Series: Big Ideas
Take a journey through the fascinating story of fractions, numbers, patterns, and shapes in order to better understand the complex world we live in. Continuing the "Big Ideas" series' trademark combination of authoritative, clear text and bold graphics to chart the development of maths through history, ...Show more