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Mathematics Minus Fear: How to Make Math Fun and Beneficial to Your Everyday Life

Lawrence Potter
4.9/5 (14682 ratings)
Description:Forget your classroom nightmares and discover how numbers can enhance and illuminate your world!How can math help you bet on horses or win in Vegas? What’s the foolproof way to solve Sudoku? How can probability teach you to calculate your chances of survival in Russian roulette? In this irreverent and entertaining guide to mathematics, Lawrence Potter takes the fear out of everything from long division to percentages. Using fascinating puzzles and surprising examples, from M.C. Escher to Pascal, he shows us how math is connected with the world we encounter every day, from how the VAT works to why weather forecasts are wrong, from winning at Monopoly to improving your mental arithmetic. Along the way you’ll also discover who invented numbers, whether animals can count, and what nuns have to do with multiplication.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Mathematics Minus Fear: How to Make Math Fun and Beneficial to Your Everyday Life. To get started finding Mathematics Minus Fear: How to Make Math Fun and Beneficial to Your Everyday Life, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages
331
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Release
2021
ISBN
1639360514

Mathematics Minus Fear: How to Make Math Fun and Beneficial to Your Everyday Life

Lawrence Potter
4.4/5 (1290744 ratings)
Description: Forget your classroom nightmares and discover how numbers can enhance and illuminate your world!How can math help you bet on horses or win in Vegas? What’s the foolproof way to solve Sudoku? How can probability teach you to calculate your chances of survival in Russian roulette? In this irreverent and entertaining guide to mathematics, Lawrence Potter takes the fear out of everything from long division to percentages. Using fascinating puzzles and surprising examples, from M.C. Escher to Pascal, he shows us how math is connected with the world we encounter every day, from how the VAT works to why weather forecasts are wrong, from winning at Monopoly to improving your mental arithmetic. Along the way you’ll also discover who invented numbers, whether animals can count, and what nuns have to do with multiplication.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Mathematics Minus Fear: How to Make Math Fun and Beneficial to Your Everyday Life. To get started finding Mathematics Minus Fear: How to Make Math Fun and Beneficial to Your Everyday Life, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
331
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Release
2021
ISBN
1639360514
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