PRODUCT OVERVIEW
- ISBN 9781788886949
- Categories [2025], BX, BXOS, JUL25_1, New Arrivals OS, NF ST, Non-Fiction, pansingJune, Science and Technology
- Author(s) Raymond Flood
- Publisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd
- Pages 384
- Format Paperback
- Dimensions 13cm x 0cm x 19.8cm
- Weight 0.22 kg
product description
From Thales and Pythagoras in ancient Greece to Grigori Perelmanâ€s solution to the Poincaré Conjecture in 2003, this accessible survey of mathematics and mathematicians explains their achievements in historical context and in terms of their application to everyday life, whether Archimedes†invention of the screw for raising water, Huygens†pendulum clocks, or the Turing test and AI.

