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Strogatz Steven

The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity

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Award-winning Steven Strogatz, one of the foremost popularisers of maths, has written a witty and fascinating account of maths' most compelling ideas and how, so often, they are an integral part of everyday life.
Maths is everywhere, often where we don't even realise. Award-winning professor Steven Strogatz acts as our guide as he takes us on a tour of numbers that — unbeknownst to the unitiated — connect pop culture, literature, art, philosophy, current affairs, business and even every day life. In The Joy of X, Strogatz explains the great ideas of maths — from negative numbers to calculus, fat tails to infinity — with clarity, wit and insight. He is the maths teacher you never had and this book is perfect for the smart and curious, the expert and the beginner.
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445 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2012
Publication year
2012
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  • jbmeerkatshared an impression4 years ago
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    Good review of basic math concepts.

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  • jbmeerkathas quoted4 years ago
    maths always involves both invention and discovery: we invent the concepts but discover their consequences
  • jbmeerkathas quoted4 years ago
    The eminent linguistic philosopher J. L. Austin of Oxford once gave a lecture in which he asserted that there are many languages in which a double negative makes a positive but none in which a double positive makes a negative — to which the Columbia philosopher Sidney Morgenbesser, sitting in the audience, sarcastically replied, “Yeah, yeah.”
  • Elvirahas quoted7 years ago
    there are so many different ways to describe a part of a whole.

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