The Museum of Mysteries

Author: David Glover
Publisher: QEB Publishing
ISBN: 9781682970096
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
It’s a race against time to solve the clues and save the Golden Hoard. If you fail, the treasure will be lost forever! A mathermatical mystery of numbers, will you survive until the end? Make your way through this thrilling adventure, using your maths skills to decide how the plot unfolds. Complete your mission and become a maths whizz at the same time! Discover an exhilarating world of learning by solving a series of mathematical problems. Finding the answers will enable readers to advance through an exciting adventure story.

The Cavern of Clues

Author: David Glover
Publisher: QEB Publishing
ISBN: 9781609920876
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Discover an exhilarating world of learning by solving a series of mathematical problems. Finding the answers will enable readers to advance through an exciting adventure story.

Planet of Puzzles

Author: David Glover
Publisher: QEB Publishing
ISBN: 9781609920883
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Discover an exhilarating world of learning by solving a series of mathematical problems. Finding the answers will enable readers to advance through an exciting adventure story.

The Museum of Mysteries

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781848357402
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 48

Book Description
It's a race against time to solve the clues and save the Golden Hoard. If you fail, the treasure will be lost forever! Make your way through this thrilling adventure, using your maths skills to decide how the plot unfolds. Complete your mission and become a maths whizz at the same time!

Escape from Hotel Infinity (Numbers)

Author: Kjartan Poskitt
Publisher:
ISBN: 1682971880
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 25

Book Description
Can you get to grip with numbers and Escape from Hotel Infinity? Finding the answers enables readers to advance through the story, learning more about maths with every step they take. Clues are dotted along the way, and wrong turns will direct readers towards the right answer.

Mage Merlin's Unsolved Mathematical Mysteries

Author: Satyan Devadoss
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262542757
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 117

Book Description
Sixteen of today's greatest unsolved mathematical puzzles in a story-driven, illustrated volume that invites readers to peek over the edge of the unknown. Most people think of mathematics as a set of useful tools designed to answer analytical questions, beginning with simple arithmetic and ending with advanced calculus. But, as Mage Merlin's Unsolved Mathematical Mysteries shows, mathematics is filled with intriguing mysteries that take us to the edge of the unknown. This richly illustrated, story-driven volume presents sixteen of today's greatest unsolved mathematical puzzles, all understandable by anyone with elementary math skills. These intriguing mysteries are presented to readers as puzzles that have time-traveled from Camelot, preserved in the notebook of Merlin, the wise magician in King Arthur's court. Our guide is Mage Maryam (named in honor of the brilliant young mathematician, the late Maryam Mirzakhani), a distant descendant of Merlin. Maryam introduces the mysteries--each of which is presented across two beautifully illustrated pages--and provides mathematical and historical context afterward. We find Merlin confronting mathematical puzzles involving tinker toys (a present for Camelot's princesses from the sorceress Morgana), cake-slicing at a festival, Lancelot's labyrinth, a vault for the Holy Grail, and more. Each mystery is a sword awaiting removal from its stone, capturing the beauty and power of mathematics.

The Island of Tomorrow (Geometry)

Author: Jonathan Litton
Publisher:
ISBN: 1682971899
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 25

Book Description
A mathematical mystery of geometry.

The Number Mysteries

Author: Marcus du Sautoy
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 0230120288
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 273

Book Description
Every time we download music, take a flight across the Atlantic or talk on our cell phones, we are relying on great mathematical inventions. In The Number Mysteries, one of our generation's foremost mathematicians Marcus du Sautoy offers a playful and accessible examination of numbers and how, despite efforts of the greatest minds, the most fundamental puzzles of nature remain unsolved. Du Sautoy tells about the quest to predict the future—from the flight of asteroids to an impending storm, from bending a ball like Beckham to forecasting population growth. He brings to life the beauty behind five mathematical puzzles that have contributed to our understanding of the world around us and have helped develop the technology to cope with it. With loads of games to play and puzzles to solve, this is a math book for everyone.

The Survival of a Mathematician

Author: Steven George Krantz
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN: 0821846299
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 328

Book Description
"One of the themes of the book is how to have a fulfilling professional life. In order to achieve this goal, Krantz discusses keeping a vigorous scholarly program going and finding new challenges, as well as dealing with the everyday tasks of research, teaching, and administration." "In short, this is a survival manual for the professional mathematician - both in academics and in industry and government agencies. It is a sequel to the author's A Mathematician's Survival Guide."--BOOK JACKET.

Euclid in the Rainforest

Author: Joseph Mazur
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0452287839
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 353

Book Description
Like Douglas Hofstadter’s Gödel, Escher, Bach, and David Berlinski’s A Tour of the Calculus, Euclid in the Rainforest combines the literary with the mathematical to explore logic—the one indispensable tool in man’s quest to understand the world. Underpinning both math and science, it is the foundation of every major advancement in knowledge since the time of the ancient Greeks. Through adventure stories and historical narratives populated with a rich and quirky cast of characters, Mazur artfully reveals the less-than-airtight nature of logic and the muddled relationship between math and the real world. Ultimately, Mazur argues, logical reasoning is not purely robotic. At its most basic level, it is a creative process guided by our intuitions and beliefs about the world.