We've got your number / Mukul Patel, illustrated by Supriya Sahai.
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- 0753470721
- 9780753470725
- We have got your number
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Main Library | Children's NonFiction | 510 P295 | Available | 33111007447598 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Numbers are all around us. They can explain where electricity comes from, why we look like our parents, why moons revolve around planets, and why it's so hard to win the lottery. Arranged in thematic chapters that are easy for the non-mathematical mind to navigate and understand, We've Got Your Number investigates all aspects of math and numbers. As an added bonus, each chapter also contains concise and accessible mathematical fun facts in one of four forms: Good at Sums , which profiles great mathematicians; Try This at Home ,entertaining number games and puzzles; What's Your Problem? , common real-life math challenges like calculating the size of the Earth (don't worry it shows you how to solve them); and What's In a Number? a fact-file 'biography' filled with iconic numbers as zero, 1, 3, 'unlucky' 13 and 1 million.
"Why everything in the universe is numbers...including you"--Cover.
Includes index.
What is mathematics? -- Counting the cosmos -- The number line -- Number bases -- Nothing, nada, nil, zero -- Birth of math -- Unfeasibly large numbers -- An infinity of infinities -- The prime numbers -- It's a mod-n world -- Sets and logic -- Proof -- How long is a coastline? -- The imaginary world -- All out of shape -- Tessallations -- Into the 4th dimension -- Impossible objects -- Graphs and networks -- The right size -- Like rabbits -- Animal populations -- Your body in numbers -- What is life? -- Choices, choices -- Chance and risk -- Samples and averages -- Algorithms -- Keeping secrets -- Up in the air -- Construction time -- Math tales -- A sporting chance -- Laws of motion -- Orbits -- Time -- the ultimate speed limit -- Shape of the universe -- Problem solved! -- Biographies.