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Numb and Number by William Hartston
$29.99 AUD
Category: Maths - Popular
'A wise, witty and insightful guide to clear thinking amid a deluge of percentages and probabilities.' Ian Stewart Like it or not, our lives are dominated by mathematics. Our daily diet of news regales us with statistical forecasts, opinion polls, risk assessments, inflation figures, weather and climat ...Show more
Woo's Wonderful World of Maths by Eddie Woo
$29.99 AUD
Category: Maths - Popular | Reading Level: 4 Science
Why is a rainbow curved? Why aren't left-handers extinct? How is a sunflower like a synchronised swimmer? Why is 'e' a magic number?The answer to these questions is contained within one simple word: MATHS. Because maths is all about patterns, and our universe is extraordinarily patterned.With enthusiasm ...Show more
Do Dice Play God? - The Mathematics of Uncertainty by Ian Stewart
$22.99 AUD
Category: Maths - Popular
Professor Ian Stewart explores the development and limits of the mathematics that tame uncertainty.
Eddie Woo's Magical Maths 2 by Eddie Woo
$19.99 AUD
Category: Maths - Popular
A bumper book of maths fun stuffed with things to draw, puzzle, invent, order, unscramble, code, decode for kids aged 7+ years from Australia's best known maths man. There's magic in maths - if you know where to look...
Eddie Woo's Magical Maths by Eddie Woo
$19.99 AUD
Category: Maths - Popular
Maths is all around us. It's in the leaves on the tree and our DNA. It's in the patterns on our footpaths and the shape of the stars. Draw, doodle, colour in, code, decode, make a snowflake, count the stars, meet an octagon, map out a mystery, discover why a cyclone and a nautilus are alike ....Be a-maz ...Show more
More Maths for Mums and Dads by Rob Eastaway
$15.00 AUD
Category: Maths - Popular
In their first, bestselling, book "Maths for Mums and Dads" Rob Eastaway and Mike Askew helped you and your child make sense of the new methods and topics covered in primary school maths. But as your child embarks on secondary school, two new issues arise. First, in the build-up to GCSE, school children ...Show more
Beyond Infinity by CHENG EUGENIA
$20.00 AUD
Category: Maths - Popular
"[Cheng] does a great service by showing us non-mathematician schlubs how real mathematical creativity works." --Wall Street Journal How big is the universe? How many numbers are there? And is infinity + 1 is the same as 1 + infinity? Such questions occur to young children and our greatest minds. ...Show more
The Ten Equations That Rule the World - And How You Can Use Them Too by David Sumpter
$35.00 AUD
Category: Maths - Popular
They know something you don't know. They work inside investment banks, betting companies and social media giants. What are the secrets held by mathematicians and what can everyone else learn from them? Their advantage can be reduced to a small number of equations. Ten of them. And, surprisingly, it isn' ...Show more
Mathematical Brainteasers with Surprising Solutions by Owen O'Shea; Colm Mulcahy
$28.99 AUD
Category: Maths - Popular | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
If you like any kind of game at all, you'll enjoy the amazing mathematical brainteasers in this entertaining book. No special mathematics training is needed. With an emphasis on puzzling word problems with surprising solutions, the author presents his mathematical hurdles in order of increasing difficu ...Show more
Adam Spencer's Top 100 by Adam Spencer
$26.99 AUD
Category: Maths - Popular
Australia's funniest mathematician is back in 2019 with a small format edition of 2018's bestseller. Which number terrifies Ogdokontaheptaphobes? Why would you watch the same clock for 14 years? And have you met the 23-million-digit prime? The answers to all of these questions - and much, much more - ar ...Show more
The Book of Numbers : From Zero to Infinity, an Entertaining List of Every Number That Counts by Tim Glynne-Jones
$15.00 AUD
Category: Maths - Popular
Adam Spencer's World of Numbers by Adam Spencer
$34.99 AUD
Category: Maths - Popular | Reading Level: very good
What's a 'firkin'? Is a tardigrade animal, vegetable or mineral? How fast is Usain Bolt ... really? And what's the record for the most lobster rolls eaten in 10 minutes? All these questions and more are answered in Adam Spencer's World of Numbers. This is a book for young and old - for anyone who's ever ...Show more