Author: Lynn Huggins-Cooper
Publisher: Qeb Publishing -- Quarto Library
ISBN: 168297412X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
"[This book] helps readers understand large numbers by relating them to everyday situations"--Provided by publisher.
Billions, Trillions, Quadrillions
Author: Lynn Huggins-Cooper
Publisher: Qeb Publishing -- Quarto Library
ISBN: 168297412X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
"[This book] helps readers understand large numbers by relating them to everyday situations"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: Qeb Publishing -- Quarto Library
ISBN: 168297412X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
"[This book] helps readers understand large numbers by relating them to everyday situations"--Provided by publisher.
Millions, Billions, & Trillions
Author: David A. Adler
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0823424030
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
How long would it take to count to a billion without stopping? How many pizzas could a million dollars buy? Big numbers-- like millions, billions, and trillions-- are hard to visualize. In this book, the dynamic duo of David A. Adler and Edward Miller illustrate and explain these huge numbers in a lighthearted, easy-to-imagine way. Whether it's a trillion pieces of popcorn, a billion dollars, or even bigger numbers, the concrete examples in Millions, Billions, & Trillions, laid out in simple, kid-friendly language and bright, cartoony illustrations, will help young readers make sense of large values and develop a sense of scale. From the masterful team of David A. Adler-- a former math teacher-- and Edward Miller comes another great introduction to mathematical concepts for young readers. Don't miss their other collaborations, including Squares, Rectangles, and Other Quadrilaterals, Money Math, Place Value, and Let's Estimate!
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0823424030
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
How long would it take to count to a billion without stopping? How many pizzas could a million dollars buy? Big numbers-- like millions, billions, and trillions-- are hard to visualize. In this book, the dynamic duo of David A. Adler and Edward Miller illustrate and explain these huge numbers in a lighthearted, easy-to-imagine way. Whether it's a trillion pieces of popcorn, a billion dollars, or even bigger numbers, the concrete examples in Millions, Billions, & Trillions, laid out in simple, kid-friendly language and bright, cartoony illustrations, will help young readers make sense of large values and develop a sense of scale. From the masterful team of David A. Adler-- a former math teacher-- and Edward Miller comes another great introduction to mathematical concepts for young readers. Don't miss their other collaborations, including Squares, Rectangles, and Other Quadrilaterals, Money Math, Place Value, and Let's Estimate!
Making up Numbers: A History of Invention in Mathematics
Author: Ekkehard Kopp
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1800640978
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Making up Numbers: A History of Invention in Mathematics offers a detailed but accessible account of a wide range of mathematical ideas. Starting with elementary concepts, it leads the reader towards aspects of current mathematical research. The book explains how conceptual hurdles in the development of numbers and number systems were overcome in the course of history, from Babylon to Classical Greece, from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, and so to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The narrative moves from the Pythagorean insistence on positive multiples to the gradual acceptance of negative numbers, irrationals and complex numbers as essential tools in quantitative analysis. Within this chronological framework, chapters are organised thematically, covering a variety of topics and contexts: writing and solving equations, geometric construction, coordinates and complex numbers, perceptions of ‘infinity’ and its permissible uses in mathematics, number systems, and evolving views of the role of axioms. Through this approach, the author demonstrates that changes in our understanding of numbers have often relied on the breaking of long-held conventions to make way for new inventions at once providing greater clarity and widening mathematical horizons. Viewed from this historical perspective, mathematical abstraction emerges as neither mysterious nor immutable, but as a contingent, developing human activity. Making up Numbers will be of great interest to undergraduate and A-level students of mathematics, as well as secondary school teachers of the subject. In virtue of its detailed treatment of mathematical ideas, it will be of value to anyone seeking to learn more about the development of the subject.
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1800640978
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Making up Numbers: A History of Invention in Mathematics offers a detailed but accessible account of a wide range of mathematical ideas. Starting with elementary concepts, it leads the reader towards aspects of current mathematical research. The book explains how conceptual hurdles in the development of numbers and number systems were overcome in the course of history, from Babylon to Classical Greece, from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, and so to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The narrative moves from the Pythagorean insistence on positive multiples to the gradual acceptance of negative numbers, irrationals and complex numbers as essential tools in quantitative analysis. Within this chronological framework, chapters are organised thematically, covering a variety of topics and contexts: writing and solving equations, geometric construction, coordinates and complex numbers, perceptions of ‘infinity’ and its permissible uses in mathematics, number systems, and evolving views of the role of axioms. Through this approach, the author demonstrates that changes in our understanding of numbers have often relied on the breaking of long-held conventions to make way for new inventions at once providing greater clarity and widening mathematical horizons. Viewed from this historical perspective, mathematical abstraction emerges as neither mysterious nor immutable, but as a contingent, developing human activity. Making up Numbers will be of great interest to undergraduate and A-level students of mathematics, as well as secondary school teachers of the subject. In virtue of its detailed treatment of mathematical ideas, it will be of value to anyone seeking to learn more about the development of the subject.
Mathematics and the Imagination
Author: Edward Kasner
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486320278
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
With wit and clarity, the authors progress from simple arithmetic to calculus and non-Euclidean geometry. Their subjects: geometry, plane and fancy; puzzles that made mathematical history; tantalizing paradoxes; more. Includes 169 figures.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486320278
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
With wit and clarity, the authors progress from simple arithmetic to calculus and non-Euclidean geometry. Their subjects: geometry, plane and fancy; puzzles that made mathematical history; tantalizing paradoxes; more. Includes 169 figures.
The Trillionist
Author: Sagan Jeffries
Publisher: EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing
ISBN: 1894063996
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
In his book, The Trillionist, author Sagan Jeffries exposes the 'who, what, when, where and why' of a boy- genius, turned madman, turned savior. Spurred on by a darkness residing within his brilliant mind, Sage Rogan, boy-genius and inventor, is relentlessly driven to bring modern advancements to his people. In fearing for his own sanity, he eventually discovers a part of his mind is, in fact, a shadowy ancient spirit with ulterior motives of its own. Realizing that the inventions he’s been coerced into creating could destroy his world, Sage yearns to make things right; clashing with the powerful entity to save his world from annihilation. The Trillionist is a futuristic science fiction novel by Sagan Jeffries.
Publisher: EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing
ISBN: 1894063996
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
In his book, The Trillionist, author Sagan Jeffries exposes the 'who, what, when, where and why' of a boy- genius, turned madman, turned savior. Spurred on by a darkness residing within his brilliant mind, Sage Rogan, boy-genius and inventor, is relentlessly driven to bring modern advancements to his people. In fearing for his own sanity, he eventually discovers a part of his mind is, in fact, a shadowy ancient spirit with ulterior motives of its own. Realizing that the inventions he’s been coerced into creating could destroy his world, Sage yearns to make things right; clashing with the powerful entity to save his world from annihilation. The Trillionist is a futuristic science fiction novel by Sagan Jeffries.
Documents of the Senate of the State of New York
Author: New York (State). Legislature. Senate
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 1128
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 1128
Book Description
The Normal Union Arithmetic
Author: Edward Brooks
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arithmetic
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arithmetic
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Proceedings of the ... Convocation
Author: University of the State of New York
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Annual Report of the Regents
Author: University of the State of New York
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
No. 104-117 contain also the Regents bulletins.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
No. 104-117 contain also the Regents bulletins.
The Brain
Author: David Eagleman
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0525433449
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
From the renowned neuroscientist and New York Times bestselling author of Incognito comes the companion volume to the international PBS series about how your life shapes your brain, and how your brain shapes your life. "An ideal introduction to how biology generates the mind.... Clear, engaging and thought-provoking." —Nature Locked in the silence and darkness of your skull, your brain fashions the rich narratives of your reality and your identity. Join renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman for a journey into the questions at the mysterious heart of our existence. What is reality? Who are “you”? How do you make decisions? Why does your brain need other people? How is technology poised to change what it means to be human? In the course of his investigations, Eagleman guides us through the world of extreme sports, criminal justice, facial expressions, genocide, brain surgery, gut feelings, robotics, and the search for immortality. Strap in for a whistle-stop tour into the inner cosmos. In the infinitely dense tangle of billions of brain cells and their trillions of connections, something emerges that you might not have expected to see in there: you. Color illustrations throughout.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0525433449
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
From the renowned neuroscientist and New York Times bestselling author of Incognito comes the companion volume to the international PBS series about how your life shapes your brain, and how your brain shapes your life. "An ideal introduction to how biology generates the mind.... Clear, engaging and thought-provoking." —Nature Locked in the silence and darkness of your skull, your brain fashions the rich narratives of your reality and your identity. Join renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman for a journey into the questions at the mysterious heart of our existence. What is reality? Who are “you”? How do you make decisions? Why does your brain need other people? How is technology poised to change what it means to be human? In the course of his investigations, Eagleman guides us through the world of extreme sports, criminal justice, facial expressions, genocide, brain surgery, gut feelings, robotics, and the search for immortality. Strap in for a whistle-stop tour into the inner cosmos. In the infinitely dense tangle of billions of brain cells and their trillions of connections, something emerges that you might not have expected to see in there: you. Color illustrations throughout.