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Author Pask, Colin, 1943-

Title Math for the frightened : facing scary symbols and everything else that freaks you out about mathematics / Colin Pask.

Publication Info. Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2011.

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 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  510 P26    Check Shelf
Description 380 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Where to begin? -- Fibonacci's Proposition Two -- Equations : information and interpretation -- The proof -- Thinking around the proof -- But why is it true? Seeing it another way -- Building up the mathematics -- Back to Pythagorean triples -- Logical steps and linear equations -- Parameters, quadratic equations, and beyond -- Any number -- Symbols -- First applications -- Mathematics and the invisible world -- CAT scans -- Social planning and mathematical surprises -- Geometry and Euclid -- An alternative approach : geometry meets algebra -- Symmetry -- Ways of thinking and how we do mathematics -- Final thoughts.
Subject Mathematical notation -- Psychological aspects.
Mathematics -- Miscellanea.
ISBN 9781616144210 paperback alkaline paper
1616144211 paperback alkaline paper
9781616144227 (ebook)
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