Odd Numbers

Name: Odd Numbers
Brand: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 401162
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HERBERT MCKAY

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ISBN

9781108002820

Mladinska knjiga ID

401162

Leto izida

2009

Datum izida

30.07.2009

Velikost (šxdxv)

150 × 200 × 10

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Na zalogi pri dobavitelju

Jezik

ANG

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

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HERBERT MCKAY

Opis

A lively exploration of everyday arithmetic processes, demonstrating their value, power and enduring interest.Mathematics has a reputation of being dull and difficult. Here is an antidote. This lively exploration of arithmetic considers its basic processes and manipulations, demonstrating their value and power and justifying an enduring interest in the subject. With humour and insight, the author shows how basic mathematics relates to everyday life - as true now as when this book was originally published in 1940. The introductory treatment of millions, billions and even trillions could be profitably read by aspiring bankers, economists or politicians. H. G. Wells is gently teased for his mistake in applying the law of proportionality in a novel. McKay politely adjusts the astronomical scales selected by the eminent cosmologist Sir James Jeans. He confidently navigates the hazards of averages, approximations and units. For anyone interested in what numbers mean and how they can be used most effectively, this book will still educate and delight.Preface; 1. Millions and billions and trillions; 2. Great powers and little powers; 3. How we got logarithms; 4. Proportion; 5. Comparisons; 6. Proportion in triangles; 7. Weights and measures; 8. The delusive average; 9. Approximations; 10. Multiplication and division; 11. Tables; 12. Units; 13. Oddities of numbers; 14. The construction and solution of problems; 15. Scales of notation.