Explore the many ways maths can help make sense out of life.
This book WON'T test your mental maths or teach you countless ways to find x. It WILL show you just how fascinating maths can be.Can maths make people rich? Can formulas predict which sports teams will win more games? Can equations explain the mysteries of the universe? The short answer to all these is YES. This book explores and explains the ways that the tools of mathematics help people make sense of the world around them, predict the future and, just maybe, how to make life itself better.
Explore the many ways maths can help make sense out of life.
This book WON'T test your mental maths or teach you countless ways to find x. It WILL show you just how fascinating maths can be.Can maths make people rich? Can formulas predict which sports teams will win more games? Can equations explain the mysteries of the universe? The short answer to all these is YES. This book explores and explains the ways that the tools of mathematics help people make sense of the world around them, predict the future and, just maybe, how to make life itself better.
Explore the many ways maths can help make sense out of life.
What is maths?
What is maths for?
How do you do maths?
Chapter 1: The beginning of maths
What did the first numbers look like, and what did people use them
for?
Chapter 2: Numbers
Number shapes, number patterns, prime numbers and numbers that go
on and on and on...to infinity.
Chapter 3: Shapes and measuring
How and why people use the tools of mathematics to describe the
shapes of everything, from everyday objects to the entire
universe.
Chapter 4: How maths is shown
Making graphs, drawing diagrams and using pictures to explain the
world better, and to help solve problems.
Chapter 5: Prove it
In mathematics, you can find an answer to a problem and know for
certain that it is correct. But how? With a PROOF.
Chapter 6: Probability and statistics
Maths can tell you the truth and predict the future - up to a
point. How does it do this, and how can you spot when people are
(mis)using maths to lie?
Chapter 7: Maths, computers and the future
No mathematics, no computers. But what kind of maths do people use
to make computers works?
Chapter 8: Mathematical models
Describing real-world problems with maths to give insights into
future weather, profits, and even human behavior.
What's next?
Jobs in maths
Glossary
Index
Acknowledgements
Sarah Hull (Author)
Sarah grew up in London, then studied German and Fine Art in Oxford
and Hamburg. She joined Usborne after working at Profile Books and
Thames & Hudson, and now spends her time writing about art,
investigating germs and devising ways to stave off boredom - all
the important things, basically.
Tom Mumbray (Author)
Tom studied History at university before joining Usborne in 2018.
Since then he's worked on books about Planet Earth, technology,
maths and inventions (and learned lots of amazing facts about
everything from paleoburrows to fireworks along the way).
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