| ISBN: | 9780711249011 |
| Publication date: | 7th April 2020 |
| Author: | Clive Gifford |
| Illustrator: | Michael Young |
| Publisher: | Wide Eyed Editions |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 127 pages |
| Reading age: | 8+ |
| Series: | Quick Histories |
| Genres: |
Children’s / Teenage general interest: Mathematics and numbers Educational: Mathematics and numeracy History |
Maths + history + jokes - boring bits = A Quick History of Maths. This book begins around 43,000 years ago with a notched baboon leg, the Lebombo bone (the very first mathematical object in the world) and rushes us past Hindu numerals and the invention of zero, via Pythagoras, Pascal and probability, right up to the present day, with big dataand the maths that rules our digital lives.
A Quick History of Maths is aimed at readers aged 8 and over.
A Quick History of Maths features in the following genres: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Mathematics and numbers, Educational: Mathematics and numeracy, History
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A Quick History of Maths was written by Clive Gifford and published by Wide Eyed Editions
A Quick History of Maths has 127 pages
Yes it is part of Quick Histories series