By Steven Strogatz

-Description

Maths is everywhere, often where we don't even realise. Award-winning professor Steven Strogatz acts as our guide as he takes us on a tour of numbers that - unbeknownst to the unitiated - connect pop culture, literature, art, philosophy, current affairs, business and even every day life. In The Joy of X, Strogatz explains the great ideas of maths - from negative numbers to calculus, fat tails to infinity - with clarity, wit and insight. He is the maths teacher you never had and this book is perfect for the smart and curious, the expert and the beginner.

-Product details

Paperback: 336 pages

Publisher: Atlantic Books; Main edition (6 Mar. 2014)

Language: English

ISBN-13: 978-1848878457

Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 2.5 x 19.8 cm