That's Maths

The Mathematical Magic in Everyday Life

Peter Lynch (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2016
Gill Books (Verlag)
978-0-7171-6955-9 (ISBN)

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An eclectic and humorous collection of 100 articles on the strange and unexpected ways mathematics shapes the world around us.

From atom bombs to rebounding slinkies, open your eyes to the mathematical magic in the everyday.

Mathematics isn’t just for academics and scientists, a fact meteorologist and blogger Peter Lynch has spent the past several years proving through his Irish Times newspaper column and blog, That’s Maths.

Here, he shows how maths is all around us, with chapters on the beautiful equations behind designing a good concert venue, predicting the stock market and modelling the atom bomb, as well as playful meditations on everything from coin-stacking to cartography. If you left school thinking maths was boring, think again!

‘Peter Lynch shows that maths is not just for academics or scientists but is something that we can all understand and enjoy’ Books Ireland

Peter Lynch is Emeritus Professor of Meteorology at University College Dublin and a maths fanatic. In his retirement Peter continues his research in dynamical meteorology and expounds the awesome wonders of maths in his blog, That’s Maths, with a fortnightly column of the same name for The Irish Times.

Erscheinungsdatum	28.10.2016
Verlagsort	Dublin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	136 x 205 mm
Gewicht	488 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga ► Humor / Satire
	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Geschichte der Mathematik
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Logik / Mengenlehre
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Mathematische Spiele und Unterhaltung
ISBN-10	0-7171-6955-3 / 0717169553
ISBN-13	978-0-7171-6955-9 / 9780717169559
Zustand	Neuware