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Bergström, Carl T.; West, Jevin D.
Calling Bullshit
The Art of Scepticism in a Data-Driven World
NOVEDAD!!- Penguin Books Ltd, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198705-7
EAN 9780141987057
The world is awash in bullshit, and we're drowning in it. Politicians are unconstrained by facts. Science is conducted by press release.Start-up culture elevates hype to high art. These days, calling bullshit is a noble act. Based on a popular course at the University of Washington, Calling Bullshit gives us the tools to see through ...
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NOVEDAD!!- Penguin UK, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198648-7
EAN 9780141986487
Is mathematics a discovery or an invention? Do numbers truly exist? What sort of reality do formulas describe?The complexity of mathematics - its abstract rules and obscure symbols - can seem very distant from the everyday. There are those things that are real and present, it is supposed, and then there are mathematical concepts: creations ...
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Numbers Don't Lie
71 Things You Need to Know About the World
NOVEDAD!!- Penguin UK, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-98969-2
EAN 9780241989692
How much do the world's cows weigh? And what makes people happy?From earth's nations and inhabitants, through the fuels and foods that energize them, to the transportation and inventions of our modern world - and how all of this affects the planet itself - in Numbers Don't Lie, Professor Vaclav Smil takes us on a ...
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x + y
A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender
- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-041-4
EAN 9781788160414
From imaginary numbers to the fourth dimension and beyond, mathematics has always been about imagining things that seem impossible at first glance. In x+y, Eugenia Cheng draws on the insights of higher-dimensional mathematics to reveal a transformative new way of talking about the patriarchy, mansplaining and sexism: a way that empowers all of us to ...
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Banerjee, Agnijo; Darling, David
Weirdest Maths
At the Frontiers of Reason
- Oneworld, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-805-6
EAN 9781786078056
Maths is everywhere, in everything. It's in the finest margins of modern sport. It's in the electrical pulses of our hearts and the flight of every bird.It is our key to secret messages, lost languages and perhaps even the shape of the universe of itself. David Darling and Agnijo Banerjee reveal the mathematics at the ...
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- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-259-3
EAN 9781788162593
Some people fear and mistrust numbers. Others want to use them for everything. After a long career as a statistician, Paul Goodwin has learned the hard way that the ones who want to use them for everything are a very good reason for the rest of us to fear and mistrust them.Something Doesn't Add Up ...
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The Rules of Contagion
Why Things Spread - and Why They Stop
- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 13,40 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-020-9
EAN 9781788160209
We live in a world that's more interconnected than ever before. Our lives are shaped by outbreaks - of disease, of misinformation, even of violence - that appear, spread and fade away with bewildering speed.To understand them, we need to learn the hidden laws that govern them. From 'superspreaders' who might spark a pandemic or ...
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- Quercus, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78747-540-3
EAN 9781787475403
Maths is the story of the world around us, and the wisdom it gives us can be the difference between success and disaster. We are all doing maths all the time, from the way we communicate with each other to the way we travel, from how we work to how we relax. Many of us ...
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The Universe Speaks in Numbers
How Modern Maths Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets
Searching for the fundamental laws of the universe, physicists have found themselves developing ambitious mathematical ideas. But without observation and experiment as their guide, are they now doing 'fairy-tale physics' as their detractors claim? In The Universe Speaks in Numbers, Graham Farmelo argues that today's greatest scientific minds are working in a tradition that dates ...
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- Penguin USA, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 17,10 €
ISBN 978-0-14-313458-9
EAN 9780143134589
We all know math is important: we live in the age of big data, our lives are increasingly governed by algorithms, and we're constantly faced with a barrage of statistics about everything from politics to our health. But what might be less obvious is how math factors into your daily life, and what memorizing all ...
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- Random House USA, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 448 páginas
PVP: 23,25 €
ISBN 978-1-63388-520-2
EAN 9781633885202
An entertaining history of mathematics as chronicled through fifty short biographies. Mathematics today is the fruit of centuries of brilliant insights by men and women whose personalities and life experiences were often as extraordinary as their mathematical achievements. This entertaining history of mathematics chronicles those achievements through fifty short biographies that bring these great thinkers ...
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- Princeton, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 20,40 €
ISBN 978-0-691-20296-9
EAN 9780691202969
How music has influenced mathematics, physics, and astronomy from ancient Greece to the twentieth centuryMusic is filled with mathematical elements. The works of Bach are often said to possess a math-like logic, and Arnold Schoenberg, Iannis Xenakis, and Karlheinz Stockhausen wrote music explicitly based on mathematical principles. Yet Eli Maor argues that it is music ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 23,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-31217-9
EAN 9780241312179
Is mathematics a discovery or an invention? Do numbers truly exist? What sort of reality do formulas describe?The complexity of mathematics - its abstract rules and obscure symbols - can seem very distant from the everyday. There are those things that are real and present, it is supposed, and then there are mathematical concepts: creations ...
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- Oneworld, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-900-6
EAN 9781780749006
What are the chances?! This exclamation greets the scarcely believable coincidence - you're picked up by the same taxi driver several years and thousands of miles apart or, in a second-hand bookshop far from home, you find your own childhood copy of Winnie-the-Pooh on the shelf. But the unlikely is more probable than you think. ...
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Tales of Impossibility
The 2000-Year Quest to Solve the Mathematical Problems of Antiquity
- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 456 páginas
PVP: 34,05 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19296-3
EAN 9780691192963
A comprehensive look at four of the most famous problems in mathematicsTales of Impossibility recounts the intriguing story of the renowned problems of antiquity, four of the most famous and studied questions in the history of mathematics. First posed by the ancient Greeks, these compass and straightedge problems-squaring the circle, trisecting an angle, doubling the ...
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- Dorling Kindersley, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 22,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-35036-2
EAN 9780241350362
See how maths' infinite mysteries and beauty unfold in this captivating educational book!Discover more than 85 of the most important mathematical ideas, theorems, and proofs ever devised with this beautifully illustrated book. Get to know the great minds whose revolutionary discoveries changed our world today. You don't have to be a maths genius to follow ...
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- Quercus, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78747-541-0
EAN 9781787475410
"Kit Yates shows how our private and social lives are suffused by mathematics. Ignorance may bring tragedy or farce. This is an exquisitely interesting book.It's a deeply serious one too and, for those like me who have little maths, it's delightfully readable" - Ian McEwan"Kit Yates is a natural storyteller. Through fascinating stories and examples, ...
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Gordon, Gary; Gordon, Hannah; Gordon, Rebecca; McMahon, Liz
The joy of SET
The many mathematical dimensions of a seemingly simple card game
- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19232-1
EAN 9780691192321
A mathematical exploration of the popular card game SETHave you ever played the addictive card game SET? Have you ever wondered about the connections between games and mathematics? If the answer to either question is "yes," then The Joy of SET is the book for you! The Joy of SET takes readers on a fascinating ...
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Finding Fibonacci
The quest to rediscover the forgotten mathematical genius who changed the World
- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 20,40 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19230-7
EAN 9780691192307
A mathematician's ten-year quest to tell Fibonacci's storyIn 2000, Keith Devlin set out to research the life and legacy of the medieval mathematician Leonardo of Pisa, popularly known as Fibonacci, whose book Liber abbaci, or the "Book of Calculation," introduced modern arithmetic to the Western world. Although most famous for the Fibonacci numbers--which, it so ...
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- Random House Uk, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-7535-5280-3
EAN 9780753552803
If you found maths lessons at school irrelevant and boring, that's because you didn't have a teacher like Bobby Seagull. ***As seen on BBC 2's Monkman x{0026} Seagull's Genius Guide to Britain*** Long before his rise to cult fandom on University Challenge, Bobby Seagull was obsessed with numbers. They were the keys that unlocked the ...
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