Six Maths Essentials

Terence Tao

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Mathematician Terence Tao shows how mathematics has evolved from counting and geometry into a flexible set of tools for understanding an increasingly complex world. He moves effortlessly from children discovering infinity through play, to the numbers that underpin our online lives; from Johannes Kepler using algebra to price a barrel of wine, to curved geometries that explain why GPS works and planes don't fly in straight lines on a map. Along the way, dice games, insurance policies and financial crises illuminate probability's promise - and its limits - while deceptively simple rules give rise to chaos, pattern and life itself.


Author(s): Tao, Terence
Binding: Hardback
Date of Publication: 27/10/2026
Pagination: 160 pages
Series: N/A
Imprint: Pelican
Published By: Penguin Books Ltd
Book Classification: |Literary essays|Applied mathematics|History of mathematics
Dimensions: 224 x 142 x 14
Weight: 208
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780241829486

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