Mathematics for the Million

Name: Mathematics for the Million
Brand: Duckworth Books
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Part of the series: Prelude Science Classics

ISBN 9781911440581 Published 15 June 2017

£10.99

One of the most illuminating, useful and exciting books ever published in the mathematical field

Taking only a modicum of knowledge for granted, Lancelot Hogben leads readers of this famous book through the whole course from simple arithmetic to calculus.

His illuminating explanation is addressed to the person who wants to understand the place of mathematics in modern civilization but who has been intimidated by its supposed difficulty.

Mathematics is the language of size, shape, and order – a language Hogben shows one can both master and enjoy.

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Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781911440581
Published: 15 June 2017
Pages: 648
Duration
Dimensions: 129 x 198 mm
Genre: Popular Science

Reviews

'It makes alive the contents of the elements of mathematics'

Albert Einstein

'Deals with maths in a way that they never taught us at school'

Daily Express

'If only I had been brought up on this book, the sense and meaning of mathematics would have been made clear to me... The book combines utmost brilliance with extraordinarily good common sense'

A. L. Rowse

'A great book of first-class importance'

H. G. Wells

About the author

Lancelot Hogben

Lancelot Thomas Hogben was a British experimental zoologist and medical statistician. He developed the African clawed frog as a model organism for biological research in his early career, attacked the eugenics movement in the middle of his career, and popularised books on science, mathematics and language in his later career. During the Second World War he had responsibility for the British Army’s medical statistics. Two of his books were bestsellers: Mathematics for the Million and Science for the Citizen. He died in 1975.

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