Numbers

Author: Kjartan Poskitt
Publisher: Hippo Bks
ISBN: 9780439981163
Category : Algebra
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
Is maths making you miserable? Are you scared of squares and perplexed by primes? Do numbers leave you...non-plussed? Then it's time to be utterly amazed, as you're whisked off to infinity and back with Numbers: The Key to the Universe. Find out how you could win a million dollars and become famous for ever (twice), discover the key to the evil Professor's Fiendish Number Chain, and travel to a distant planet for the biggest gig in all eternity. Meanwhile, things get ugly when the gangsters meet the unlucky number 13. Guarantee: This book contains no nasty exercises and no boring sums!

More Murderous Maths

Author: Kjartan Poskitt
Publisher: SCHOLASTIC
ISBN: 9780439011532
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
Find out how to escape the evil clutches of Professor Fiendish, why maths could save us from the destruction of life on Earth, and meet Pythagoras, who got so upset about maths that he murdered someone. Plus, One Finger Jimmy and the rest of the gang are here to show how dangerous maths can be.

Murderous Maths: The Most Epic Book of Maths EVER

Author: Kjartan Poskitt
Publisher: Scholastic Non-Fiction
ISBN: 1407163639
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 99

Book Description
The Most Epic Book of Maths EVER (formerly The Murderous Maths of Everything) is one big book with (nearly) all the answers to everything in maths EVER. Readers can join the cast of crazy characters on a tour of the Murderous Maths building to discover the darkest and deadliest mathematical secrets, including: a sure-fire way how to make birthdays last twice as long, how the number 1 starts fights, how triangles lead to murder, and much more. Maths has never been so much fun!

Math on Trial

Author: Leila Schneps
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465037941
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
In the wrong hands, math can be deadly. Even the simplest numbers can become powerful forces when manipulated by politicians or the media, but in the case of the law, your liberty -- and your life -- can depend on the right calculation. In Math on Trial, mathematicians Leila Schneps and Coralie Colmez describe ten trials spanning from the nineteenth century to today, in which mathematical arguments were used -- and disastrously misused -- as evidence. They tell the stories of Sally Clark, who was accused of murdering her children by a doctor with a faulty sense of calculation; of nineteenth-century tycoon Hetty Green, whose dispute over her aunt's will became a signal case in the forensic use of mathematics; and of the case of Amanda Knox, in which a judge's misunderstanding of probability led him to discount critical evidence -- which might have kept her in jail. Offering a fresh angle on cases from the nineteenth-century Dreyfus affair to the murder trial of Dutch nurse Lucia de Berk, Schneps and Colmez show how the improper application of mathematical concepts can mean the difference between walking free and life in prison. A colorful narrative of mathematical abuse, Math on Trial blends courtroom drama, history, and math to show that legal expertise isn't't always enough to prove a person innocent.

The Key to the Universe

Author: Kjartan Poskitt
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781407107110
Category : Algebra
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A humorous look at the world of numbers, covering topics number systems, such as place values, fractions, prime numbers, and their uses. Suggested level: intermediate, junior secondary.

Cats React to Science Facts

Author: Izzi Howell
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0531137937
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 120

Book Description
Let s face it: Like every topic, science becomes more interesting when cats are involved! Every spread of this book introduces a STEM topic related to physical science, biology, astronomy or the human body, and a furry cat uses a scale to determine if the fact is Wow! or No Way! or OMG! Or Gross! Or Mind-Blowing! Packed with key science topics, hilarious jokes, puns and cats, and building on the popularity of online cat videos ... kids will find this book is just purr-fect!

The Mathematician's Brain

Author: David Ruelle
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691129822
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description
Examines mathematical ideas and the visionary minds behind them. This book provides an account of celebrated mathematicians and their quirks, oddities, personal tragedies, bad behavior, descents into madness, tragic ends, and the beauty of their mathematical discoveries.

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Author: Julian Jaynes
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547527543
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 580

Book Description
National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future. “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry

The Magic of Maths

Author: Kjartan Poskitt
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781407147208
Category : Probabilities
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Find out how to wow your friends and amaze your teachers with marvellous maths magic tricks.

The Phantom X

Author: Kjartan Poskitt
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781407107134
Category : Algebra
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Murderous Maths has been given a gorgeous new cover look! Using a host of hilarious characters, Kjartan Poskitt presents all the tricks, tips and shortcuts to algebra they don't teach at school. Readers must pit their wits against Professor Fiendish in the Foul Formula Challenge and Chainsaw Charlie and his gruesome gang discover that even the simplest maths can be murderous. But look no further: The Phantom is here to banish algebraic agony - for good!