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Figuring It Out

This fun book uses stories to explain mathematics. It tells of villains who steal secrets, heroes who encode messages, highway confusions that result from ignoring Cartesian geometry, mistakes in calendars due to poor numerical approximations, and more.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Crato, Nuno
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: Springer 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04833-3
http://cds.cern.ch/record/1412712
Descripción
Sumario:This fun book uses stories to explain mathematics. It tells of villains who steal secrets, heroes who encode messages, highway confusions that result from ignoring Cartesian geometry, mistakes in calendars due to poor numerical approximations, and more.