One To Nine

Author : Andrew Hodges
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393068634
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One to Nine: The Inner Life of Numbers written by Andrew Hodges and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008-05-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Lynne Truss did for grammar in Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Andrew Hodges now does for mathematics. Andrew Hodges, one of Britain’s leading biographers and mathematical writers, brings numbers to three-dimensional life in this delightful and illuminating volume, filled with illustrations, which makes even the most challenging math problems accessible to the layperson. Inspired by millennia of human attempts to figure things out, this pithy book, which tackles mathematical conundrums from the ancient Greeks to superstring theory, finds a new twist to everything from musical harmony to code breaking, from the chemistry of sunflowers to the mystery of magic squares. Starting with the puzzle of defining unity, and ending with the recurring nines of infinite decimals, Hodges tells a story that takes in quantum physics, cosmology, climate change, and the origin of the computer. Hodges has written a classic work, at once playful but satisfyingly instructional, which will be ideal for the math aficionado and the Sudoku addict as well as for the life of the party.

Author : Andrea Bréard
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319936956
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nine Chapters on Mathematical Modernity written by Andrea Bréard and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book addresses for the first time the dynamics associated with the modernization of mathematics in China from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century from a transcultural global historical perspective. Rather than depict the transformations of mathematical knowledge in terms of a process of westernization, the book analyzes the complex interactions between different scientific communities and the ways in which the past, modernity, language, and mathematics were negotiated in a global context. In each chapter, Andrea Bréard provides vivid portraits of a series of go-betweens (such as translators, educators, or state statisticians) based on a vast array of translated primary sources hitherto unavailable to a non-Chinese readership. They not only illustrate how Chinese scholars mediated between new mathematical objects and discursive modes, but also how they instrumentalized their autochthonous scientific roots in specific political and intellectual contexts. While sometimes technical in style, the book addresses all readers who are interested in the global and cultural history of science and the complexities involved in the making of universal mathematics. “While the pursuit of modernity is in the title, entanglement is of as much interest. Using the famous ‘Nine Chapters’ as a framework, Bréard considers a wide range of that entanglement from divination to data management. Bréard’s analysis and thought-provoking insights show once again how much we can learn when two cultures intersect. A fascinating read!” (John Day, Boston University).

Author : Tracy Townsend
Publisher : Pyr
ISBN 13 : 1633883426
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nine written by Tracy Townsend and published by Pyr. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the dark streets of Corma exists a book that writes itself, a book that some would kill for... Black market courier Rowena Downshire is just trying to pay her mother’s freedom from debtor's prison when an urgent and unexpected delivery leads her face to face with a creature out of nightmares. Rowena escapes with her life, but the strange book she was ordered to deliver is stolen. The Alchemist knows things few men have lived to tell about, and when Rowena shows up on his doorstep, frightened and empty-handed, he knows better than to turn her away. What he discovers leads him to ask for help from the last man he wants to see—the former mercenary, Anselm Meteron. Across town, Reverend Phillip Chalmers awakes in a cell, bloodied and bruised, facing a creature twice his size. Translating the stolen book may be his only hope for survival; however, he soon realizes the book may be a fabled text written by the Creator Himself, tracking the nine human subjects of His Grand Experiment. In the wrong hands, it could mean the end of humanity. Rowena and her companions become the target of conspirators who seek to use the book for their own ends. But how can this unlikely team be sure who the enemy is when they can barely trust each other? And what will happen when the book reveals a secret no human was meant to know?

Author : Molly Bang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780099354413
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ten, Nine, Eight written by Molly Bang and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published Julia Macrae, 1983. Counting book.

Author : Anthony FOTHERGILL (a Husbandman, of Westmoreland.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A modest enquiry how far the thirty-nine articles of the Church of England, and the creed ascribed to St. Athanasius, are consistent with, and supported by, each other: and how far they are also consistent with the declarations of Jesus Christ, and the doctrine of his Apostles written by Anthony FOTHERGILL (a Husbandman, of Westmoreland.) and published by . This book was released on 1755 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jane L. Rosen
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385541430
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nine Women, One Dress written by Jane L. Rosen and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A charming, hilarious, irresistible romp of a novel that brings together nine unrelated women, each touched by the same little black dress that weaves through their lives, bringing a little magic with it. Natalie is a Bloomingdale's salesgirl mooning over her lawyer ex-boyfriend who's engaged to someone else after just two months. Felicia has been quietly in love with her boss for seventeen years and has one night to finally make the feeling mutual. Andie is a private detective who specializes in gathering evidence on cheating husbands—a skill she unfortunately learned from her own life—and lands a case that may restore her faith in true love. For these three women, as well as half a dozen others in sparkling supporting roles—a young model fresh from rural Alabama, a diva Hollywood star making her Broadway debut, an overachieving, unemployed Brown grad who starts faking a fabulous life on social media, to name just a few—everything is about to change, thanks to the dress of the season, the perfect little black number everyone wants to get their hands on . . .

Author : Robin Whatley
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1491875577
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Copper In Castleford written by Robin Whatley and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fun, games and sadness, all in the life of a Uniformed Police Officer. Laugh and Cry whilst given an insight of a Coppers work in a busy Yorkshire town. This is an account of a Police Officers life in the 1970s, recounted with a good dose of humour this compendium of tales is basically true to life. An insight into the duties of a Copper working a very special town, Castleford, West Yorkshire.

Author : Blia Xiong
Publisher : Children's Book Press
ISBN 13 : 9780892391103
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nine-in-one, Grr! Grr! written by Blia Xiong and published by Children's Book Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the great god Shao promises Tiger nine cubs each year, Bird comes up with a clever trick to prevent the land from being overrun by tigers.

Author : Louis August Gottschalk
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drug Abuse Deaths in Nine Cities written by Louis August Gottschalk and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jonathan Vaughters
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143134140
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One-Way Ticket written by Jonathan Vaughters and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new memoir tracing story of cycling since the 1980s, through the eyes of Jonathan Vaughters, founder of team Education First and one of the sport's most towering figures. Jonathan Vaughters' story is the story of modern cycling. From his early years as a keen cyclist in his hometown in Colorado to his unflinching rite of passage as a professional rider with US Postal to his elevation as one of cycling's most resilient, ethical and intelligent team bosses, the highs and lows of his career have mirrored those of the sport itself. Vaughters has had a front-row seat for most of the major events in cycling over the past three decades. He was both a former teammate of Lance and a leading witness against him. And he went on to renounce doping and start the first pro cycling team to dedicate itself to clean riding, which has grown into one of the most successful teams competing today and started a movement that has swept across the sport. This is also not simply a story of races won and lost: Vaughters shows readers how he navigated the complex, international business of building Slipstream into a world-class cycling team. Over the past decade, he has led the sport out of the scandal-plagued Armstrong era. By presenting the world with a team made of talented racers built around a rigorous approach to clean racing, he set a new standard within cycling that has since spread across the peloton. Written from the unique perspective of both a racer and a team manager, One-Way Ticket gives the complete story of what it takes to build a winning team and repair the reputation of a sport.