Name: How to Solve the Da Vinci Code: And 34 Other Really Interesting Uses of Mathematics
Author: Richard Elwes (Author)
ISBN: 9780857388384

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How to Solve the Da Vinci Code: And 34 Other Really Interesting Uses of Mathematics

Author(s): Richard Elwes (Author)

Publisher: Quercus Publishing
Publication Date: July 26, 2016
Language: English
Print length: 224 pages
ISBN-10: 085738838X
ISBN-13: 9780857388384

Book Description

Can you outrun a bullet?
How do you build an electronic brain?
Could you slow down time?
How do you unleash chaos?

From Plato's classification of regular polyhedra to making a million on the stock market, How to Solve the Da Vinci Code gives you everything you need to understand how numbers work, and the impact they have on our lives every day.

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Review

'Here is a brilliantly conceived book on the history, working and going-ons of mathematics ... Go out and get a copy for yourself today and become the maths boffin your teacher always wished you were!' Vision Magazine.―Vision Magazine

About the Author

Dr Richard Elwes is a writer, teacher and researcher in Mathematics and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Leeds. He contributes to New Scientist and Plus Magazine and publishes research on model theory. He is the author of Mathematics 1001 published by Quercus.

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