| Edition |
[Enhanced Credo edition] |
| Description |
1 online resource (54 entries) : 127 images ; digital files |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
Originally published as 50 mathematical ideas you really need to know, 2007. |
| Contents |
Zero -- Number systems -- Fractions -- Squares and square roots -- pi -- e -- Infinity -- Imaginary numbers -- Primes -- Perfect numbers -- Fibonacci numbers -- Golden rectangles -- Pascal's triangle -- Algebra -- Euclid's algorithm -- Logic -- Proof -- Sets -- Calculus -- Constructions -- Triangles -- Curves -- Topology -- Dimension -- Fractals -- Chaos -- The parallel postulate -- Discrete geometry -- Graphs -- The four-colour problem -- Probability -- Baye's theory -- The birthday problem -- Distributions -- The normal curve -- Connecting data -- Genetics -- Groups -- Matrices -- Codes -- Advanced counting -- Magic squares -- Latin squares -- Money mathematics -- The diet problem -- The travelling salesperson -- Game theory -- Relativity -- Fermat's last theorem -- The Riemann hypothesis. |
| Access |
Access restricted to authorized users and institutions. |
| Summary |
In 50 Maths Ideas You Really Need to Know, 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. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Local Note |
Credo Reference. |
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Credo Reference General Reference |
| Subject |
Mathematics -- Miscellanea.
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Mathematics. |
| Genre/Form |
Trivia and miscellanea.
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| Subject |
Mathematics -- Popular works.
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| Genre/Form |
Popular works.
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Electronic books.
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Trivia and miscellanea.
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| Added Author |
Credo Reference (Firm), distributor.
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| Added Title |
Fifty maths ideas you really need to know. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: 1848667051 9781848667051 208 pages : illustrations |
| ISBN |
9781785397288 electronic version |
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1848667051 hardback |
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9781848667051 hardback |
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