Murderous Maths Key To The Universe

Author : Kjartan Poskitt
Publisher : Hippo Bks
ISBN 13 : 9780439981163
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Numbers written by Kjartan Poskitt and published by Hippo Bks. This book was released on 2002 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is maths making you miserable? Are you scared of squares and perplexed by primes? Do numbers leave you...non-plussed? Then it's time to be utterly amazed, as you're whisked off to infinity and back with Numbers: The Key to the Universe. Find out how you could win a million dollars and become famous for ever (twice), discover the key to the evil Professor's Fiendish Number Chain, and travel to a distant planet for the biggest gig in all eternity. Meanwhile, things get ugly when the gangsters meet the unlucky number 13. Guarantee: This book contains no nasty exercises and no boring sums!

Author : Kjartan Poskitt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781407107110
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Key to the Universe written by Kjartan Poskitt and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A humorous look at the world of numbers, covering topics number systems, such as place values, fractions, prime numbers, and their uses. Suggested level: intermediate, junior secondary.

Author : Kjartan Poskitt
Publisher : Scholastic Non-Fiction
ISBN 13 : 1407163639
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murderous Maths: The Most Epic Book of Maths EVER written by Kjartan Poskitt and published by Scholastic Non-Fiction. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Most Epic Book of Maths EVER (formerly The Murderous Maths of Everything) is one big book with (nearly) all the answers to everything in maths EVER. Readers can join the cast of crazy characters on a tour of the Murderous Maths building to discover the darkest and deadliest mathematical secrets, including: a sure-fire way how to make birthdays last twice as long, how the number 1 starts fights, how triangles lead to murder, and much more. Maths has never been so much fun!

Author : Kjartan Poskitt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781407107141
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fiendish Angletron written by Kjartan Poskitt and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers traumatised by triangles and anxious about angles, the next in the unchallenged Murderous Maths series, The Fiendish Angletron unveils the tools to solve even the most testing of trigonomogeometric tasks. Here to help are some strangely familiar superheroes Supersin, Cosgirl and Tandog. Using a host of hilarious characters, Kjartan Poskitt presents all the tricks, tips and shortcuts to maths they don't teach at school.

Author : Kjartan Poskitt
Publisher : SCHOLASTIC
ISBN 13 : 9780439011532
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book More Murderous Maths written by Kjartan Poskitt and published by SCHOLASTIC. This book was released on 1999 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find out how to escape the evil clutches of Professor Fiendish, why maths could save us from the destruction of life on Earth, and meet Pythagoras, who got so upset about maths that he murdered someone. Plus, One Finger Jimmy and the rest of the gang are here to show how dangerous maths can be.

Author : Leila Schneps
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465037941
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Math on Trial written by Leila Schneps and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wrong hands, math can be deadly. Even the simplest numbers can become powerful forces when manipulated by politicians or the media, but in the case of the law, your liberty -- and your life -- can depend on the right calculation. In Math on Trial, mathematicians Leila Schneps and Coralie Colmez describe ten trials spanning from the nineteenth century to today, in which mathematical arguments were used -- and disastrously misused -- as evidence. They tell the stories of Sally Clark, who was accused of murdering her children by a doctor with a faulty sense of calculation; of nineteenth-century tycoon Hetty Green, whose dispute over her aunt's will became a signal case in the forensic use of mathematics; and of the case of Amanda Knox, in which a judge's misunderstanding of probability led him to discount critical evidence -- which might have kept her in jail. Offering a fresh angle on cases from the nineteenth-century Dreyfus affair to the murder trial of Dutch nurse Lucia de Berk, Schneps and Colmez show how the improper application of mathematical concepts can mean the difference between walking free and life in prison. A colorful narrative of mathematical abuse, Math on Trial blends courtroom drama, history, and math to show that legal expertise isn't't always enough to prove a person innocent.

Author : Kjartan Poskitt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781407114514
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Easy Questions, Evil Answers written by Kjartan Poskitt and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can you make a liar tell the truth? How many people in the world share your birthday? Easy Questions, Evil Answers provides the answers to these questions and more. It's the perfect read for anyone who's ever wondered just how many footballs you can fit in a swimming pool and how long it takes to count to a million.

Author : Kjartan Poskitt
Publisher : SCHOLASTIC
ISBN 13 : 9780439996075
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Do You Feel Lucky? written by Kjartan Poskitt and published by SCHOLASTIC. This book was released on 2001 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does probability make you panic? Do you ever feel you don't fancy your chances? This title will show you why coins have no memory, and whether Urgum the Axeman is likely to lose his head and join Riverboat Lil and Brett Shuffler in a mathematical tangle with swamp snakes.

Author : Annie Dillard
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307477665
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book For the Time Being written by Annie Dillard and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-05-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Bestseller "Beautifully written and delightfully strange...as earthy as it is sublime...in the truest sense, an eye-opener." --Daily News From Annie Dillard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and one of the most compelling writers of our time, comes For the Time Being, her most profound narrative to date. With her keen eye, penchant for paradox, and yearning for truth, Dillard renews our ability to discover wonder in life's smallest--and often darkest--corners. Why do we exist? Where did we come from? How can one person matter? Dillard searches for answers in a powerful array of images: pictures of bird-headed dwarfs in the standard reference of human birth defects; ten thousand terra-cotta figures fashioned for a Chinese emperor in place of the human court that might have followed him into death; the paleontologist and theologian Teilhard de Chardin crossing the Gobi Desert; the dizzying variety of clouds. Vivid, eloquent, haunting, For the Time Being evokes no less than the terrifying grandeur of all that remains tantalizingly and troublingly beyond our understanding. "Stimulating, humbling, original--. [Dillard] illuminate[s] the human perspective of the world, past, present and future, and the individual's relatively inconsequential but ever so unique place in it."--Rocky Mountain News

Author : Julian Jaynes
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547527543
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind written by Julian Jaynes and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2000-08-15 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future. “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry