Quantum Leaps - Hugh Barker

Quantum Leaps

How Maths Drives Scientific Progress

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
320 Seiten
2025
Atlantic Books (Verlag)
978-1-78649-768-0 (ISBN)
13,70 inkl. MwSt
Discover the hidden maths behind every modern technology.
From the author of Million Dollar Maths comes a fascinating and engaging look at the mathematics that lies behind our modern world.

How does Google know what you want to type?
How did humans first reach the moon?
Could we ever have a supercomputer the size of a pinhead?

In this thrilling numerical journey, Hugh Barker explores how mathematics has helped to build the technology of today, and the fascinating ways it is shaping the future. From green energy to 3-D printing and from quantum cryptography to machine learning, Quantum Leaps reveals the hidden mathematics in modern technology.

Beautifully written and full of ingenious examples, this book will make you realise how the modern world would be impossible without our formidable mathematical armoury.

Hugh Barker is a non-fiction author and editor; as the latter he has edited several successful popular maths books, including A Slice of Pi. Hugh is a keen amateur mathematician and was accepted to study maths at Cambridge University aged 16.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.5.2025
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik
Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Angewandte Mathematik
ISBN-10 1-78649-768-9 / 1786497689
ISBN-13 978-1-78649-768-0 / 9781786497680
Zustand Neuware
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