50 Ideas You Really Need To Know Maths Analysis
About the Author
Tony Crilly is a freelance writer, having previously taught at the University of Michigan, the City University in Hong Kong, Middlesex University and the Open University. His principal research interest is the history of mathematics, and he has written and edited many works on fractals, chaos and computing. He is the author of the acclaimed biography of the English mathematician Arthur Cayley and popular maths book How Big is Infinity?
Reflection
50 Ideas You Really Need To Know Maths, written by Tony Crilly, is one of the other books from the “50 Ideas You Really Need To Know” series, about Mathematics. It takes us on a journey from the Introduction of Zero to the Riemann’s Hypothesis via the wicked roads some leading to …show more content…
• Each idea took a long time to be studied and reflected by scientists and mathematicians, depicting the complex yet fascinating nature of the idea
• Each idea still plays its role today, some being the foundation of Maths itself and some longing to be studied more.
Also, each chapter in the book comes with a “condensed idea” which gives the gist of the entire chapter in just a few words. Overall, all these features help to make the book easy-to-read and all the illustrations in the book help to understand the content, its history and progress and its meaning.
In a nutshell, 50 Ideas You Really Need To Know Maths is one of the best books to read if one wants to know Mathematics closer and clearer than before apart from the academics. It is always wise to know the meanings of what we use daily and this book helps us know to do that. This book brings the whole unknown world of Maths to our doorsteps, knocks our door, holds our hands and takes us far, far away to ETERNITY.
Tony Crilly is a freelance writer, having previously taught at the University of Michigan, the City University in Hong Kong, Middlesex University and the Open University. His principal research interest is the history of mathematics, and he has written and edited many works on fractals, chaos and computing. He is the author of the acclaimed biography of the English mathematician Arthur Cayley and popular maths book How Big is Infinity?
Reflection
50 Ideas You Really Need To Know Maths, written by Tony Crilly, is one of the other books from the “50 Ideas You Really Need To Know” series, about Mathematics. It takes us on a journey from the Introduction of Zero to the Riemann’s Hypothesis via the wicked roads some leading to …show more content…
• Each idea took a long time to be studied and reflected by scientists and mathematicians, depicting the complex yet fascinating nature of the idea
• Each idea still plays its role today, some being the foundation of Maths itself and some longing to be studied more.
Also, each chapter in the book comes with a “condensed idea” which gives the gist of the entire chapter in just a few words. Overall, all these features help to make the book easy-to-read and all the illustrations in the book help to understand the content, its history and progress and its meaning.
In a nutshell, 50 Ideas You Really Need To Know Maths is one of the best books to read if one wants to know Mathematics closer and clearer than before apart from the academics. It is always wise to know the meanings of what we use daily and this book helps us know to do that. This book brings the whole unknown world of Maths to our doorsteps, knocks our door, holds our hands and takes us far, far away to ETERNITY.