50 mathematical ideas you really need to know /

Crilly, A. J.

50 mathematical ideas you really need to know / Fifty mathematical ideas you really need to know Tony Crilly. - London : Quercus, 2007. - 208 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Includes index.

Who invented zero? Why are there 60 seconds in a minute? Can a butterfly's wings really cause a storm on the far side of the world? In 50 concise essays, Professor Tony Crilly explains the mathematical concepts that allow use to understand and shape the world around us.

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Mathematics.
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Popular Science and Mathematics.