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Maths in 100 key breakthroughs / Richard Elwes.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
510.9 ELWE	Adult Non Fiction		Campsie .	. Available .

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9781780873220 (pbk.)
Name	Elwes, Richard, 1978-
Title	Maths in 100 key breakthroughs / Richard Elwes.
Published	London : Quercus, 2013.
Description	416 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Notes	Includes index.
Summary	Maths in 100 Key Breakthroughs presents a series of essays explaining the fundamentals of the most important maths concepts you really need to know. Richard Elwes profiles the groundbreaking and front-of-mind discoveries that have had a profound influence on our way of life and understanding. From the origins of counting some 35,000 years ago, right up to the very latest breakthroughs - such as Wiles' proof of Fermat's Last Theorem and Cook & Wolfram's Rule 110 - Maths in 100 Key Breakthroughs tells a story of discovery, invention, painstaking progress and inspired leaps of the imagination.
Subjects	Mathematics
Subjects	Mathematics -- History
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Mathematics . Mathematics -- History . See Also: Algebra . Arithmetic . Business mathematics . Calculus . Dynamics . Economics, Mathematical . Fourth dimension . Game theory . Geometry . Graphic methods . Kinematics . Logic, Symbolic and mathematical . Metric system . Number theory . Probabilities . Science . Set theory . Trigonometry . Vector analysis . Word problems (Mathematics) . Narrower Subject References: Vector analysis. . Word problems (Mathematics) . Authors: Elwes, Richard, 1978- .