Pluses and Minuses
How Maths Solves Our Problems
$28.04
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
21 July 2020
Summary
What is the relationship between the number of films Nicolas Cage appears in and the number of deaths by drowning in swimming pools?
How in 1850s London did John Snow calculate the relationship between the city’s water suppliers and the number of deaths from cholera?
Thousands of years ago, the inhabitants of Mesopotamia became the first humans to use numbers. Since then, mathematics has become an unstoppable force. It’s behind almost everything, from search engines to cruise …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781922268570 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1922268577 |
| Author: | Stefan Buijsman, Andy Brown |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 21 July 2020 |
| Weight: | 310g |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 234mm x 155mm |
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About The Author
Stefan Buijsman
Stefan Buijsman was born in 1995 and gained a master’s degree in philosophy in Leiden at the age of eighteen, after which he moved from Sweden to work on a PhD. Within eighteen months (instead of the usual four years) he gained his doctorate, making him one of the youngest ever PhDs. He is currently studying the philosophy of mathematics as a post-doctoral researcher. Along with Govrien Oldenburger he is the author of a children’s book The Kingdom of Sums (2018). He lives in Amsterdam.
Andy Brown is an English translator and editor who has been living in the Netherlands for 35 years. He has translated around 20 books of non-fiction, specialising in popular science.
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