The Maths Notebook

图书介绍

A recreational mathematics book covering a wide range of real world mathematical subjects. No experience necessary ! Primarily aimed at adults, most of the book should be within the reach of anyone over the age of 11+, so long as they have an interest in numbers. Formulae are kept to an absolute minimum to give the artistic side of maths a chance to shine. Subjects covered include fractals, sequences, famous puzzles, catastrophes, the most important numbers in the universe, infinities, actuarial science, magic squares and lots, lots more.
Contents:

Introduction

1. Sequences and Series

2. Magic Squares

3. All about A4 paper

4. The Human calculator

5. Pythagoras’s Triples and Fermat’s last Theorem

6. How big is Infinity ?

7. Actuarial science - the mathematics of mortality