Quite Right

Author : Norman Biggs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191067601
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quite Right written by Norman Biggs and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-11 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mathematics did not spring spontaneously into life, with rules set in stone for all time. Its story is closely linked with the problems of measurement and money that have often driven its progress. Quite Right explains how mathematical ideas have gradually emerged since prehistoric times, so that they pervade almost every aspect of life in the twenty-first century. Many histories of mathematics focus on the activities of those for whom mathematics itself was the motivation. Professor Biggs adopts a wider viewpoint. Making use of new discoveries of artefacts and documents, he explains the part that mathematics has played in the human story, and what that tells us about the nature of mathematics. The story reveals the power and beauty of mathematical concepts, which often belie their utilitarian origins. The twin paradigms of logical justification and algorithmic calculation recur throughout the book. No other book tells the story of mathematics, measurement, and money in this way. Includes secontions on: — The origins of calculation in ancient and medieval times — How mathematics provides answers that are right, and what that means — The impact of trade and the use of money on the development of mathematical algorithms — The use of mathematics for secure communications — How money and information are linked in our electronic world Quite Right is a fascinating story, suitable for anyone interested in the mathematical foundations of the world we live in. Norman Biggs is Professor (Emeritus) of Mathematics at the London School of Economics. He is the author of 12 books, including a perennial best-selling book Discrete Mathematics (Oxford University Press). He has a special interest in measurement and was Chair of the International Society of Weights and Scales Collectors from 2009-14. He served as a Vice President of the British Society for the History of Mathematics in 2014 and is an active member of the British Numismatic Society. 'This is a history of mathematics book with a difference. Instead of the usual chronological sequence of events, presented with mathematical hindsight (interpreting mathematical achievements from a modern point of view), this book tries to see things more from the context of the time - presenting the topics thematically rather than strictly chronologically, and including results and problems only when they fit into the themes ... the level of exposition is first-rate, with a far greater fluency than most mathematical writers can attain ... I am very happy to recommend it wholeheartedly.' Professor Robin Wilson, University of Oxford

Author : Lyla Payne
Publisher : Trisha Leigh Ziegenhorn
ISBN 13 : 1519651287
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Not Quite Right (A Lowcountry Mystery) written by Lyla Payne and published by Trisha Leigh Ziegenhorn. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the living, the dead, and the people stuck somewhere in between, Heron Creek has become a battleground. Graciela Harper might be new seeing ghosts, fighting curses, and just living with her old friends again, but there’s no doubt she’s on the front lines—and overwhelmed. Leo and Mel have been arrested. Amelia teeters on the edge of a deep depression that could cost her her child. Beau, her boyfriend who might not quite be her boyfriend anymore, is breaking her heart. None of that will matter if Gracie can’t figure out how to break the hundreds year old curse on the male line of her family. She knows she needs to focus on that, but with the future of one of South Carolina’s oldest and most prestigious families hanging in the balance, she’s tempted to try to save them, too. What Gracie’s about to learn is that she can’t do this alone, and every single person who has entered her life since her return to Heron Creek will need to pitch in for her to succeed. Well, that and the fact that she might not be able to save everyone…not even herself.

Author : Guy Billout
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 156792266X
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Something's Not Quite Right written by Guy Billout and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2004 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this slightly off-beat, deliberately challenging and striking oversized book, one of America's favourite artists offers up to 33 full-size paintings that portray scenes where things are, well, not quite right, but just enough so that most children will be able to spot the clever anomalies and paradoxes. Ages 8+.

Author : Shereen Quraeshi
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 103912710X
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Not Quite Right Cake written by Shereen Quraeshi and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sara and her children are baking three cakes-but these are no ordinary cakes. Sara has set up this baking time to help her explain to her children a very difficult subject: divorce. She gives each child the freedom to experiment with their cake. When they don’t quite follow the instructions, their cakes turn out differently than they expected. Marriage is like a cake. It has a recipe, and if you don’t follow it, sometimes it doesn’t work out. It’s no one’s fault, but it does mean that it’s time to say goodbye to that not-quite-right cake. As Sara and her children navigate this hard conversation, they teach the children reading along how to understand divorce in their own lives, what it means for their parents—and for them.

Author : David Niall Wilson
Publisher : Crossroad Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Not Quite Right Reverend Cletus J. Diggs & The Currently Accepted Habits of Nature written by David Niall Wilson and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “All that grows must decompose.” —Cletus J. Diggs. When Cletus J. Diggs gets a visit from his buddy Jasper and learns about the dead man sticking boot-first out of the fishing hole, he has no idea what it will lead to. How could he? Old Mill is famous for a lot of things, good fishing, barbecue, over-sized satellite dishes and disappearing beer; it is not known for genetic research, ancient rituals, or alien abduction. From the moment Cletus and Sheriff Bob drag the corpse from the fishing hole to the final moments of terror, the action is non-stop, tense, and filled with surprises. Between the Reverend Dozier and his church, the swamp witch, the albino twins, and the local lodge’s well-hidden secrets, the strange events in Old Mill, NC are pretty much out of control. Only Cletus, ordained minister, common law attorney, journalist, private investigator and jack of all trades can draw together the people and resources necessary to set things right. The question is, can he do it before it’s too late? This special digital Edition includes the short story "The Not Quite Right Reverend Cletus J. Diggs & The Fruit of Another Vine," as well as interior illustrations by Zach McCain AND by the author, David Niall Wilson. Also included is the author's introduction to "The Not Quite Right Reverend Cletus J. Diggs & The Crazy Case of Foreman James," as well as an excerpt from that novel!

Author : David Niall Wilson
Publisher : Crossroad Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Not Quite Right Reverend Cletus J. Diggs & The Crazy Case of Foreman James written by David Niall Wilson and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreman James has always walked the streets of Old Mill, North Carolina, standing tall on street corners and booming his "story" to the world. Not many know where he comes from, or where he goes - no one knows the whole story. When an old, hand-written journal Foreman has carried since childhood goes missing, his carefully preserved world begins to crumble, and Old Mill takes notice. When Cletus J. Diggs' buddy Jasper drops by to tell him how the crazy man was accosting pedestrians on the street, nearly got picked up by the sheriff, and drew the attention of one of the most powerful, and potentially evil men in ten country miles, Jarrod Pope, Cletus is interested. You see, Cletus found a book that day - a very old book - and it has bits and pieces of a very personal, very dark mystery tucked into its weathered pages. Can Cletus, investigator, common-law lawyer, journalist, ordained minister and self-taught jack of all trades unravel that mystery despite the years that separate him from it before something very bad happens? Will Jasper ever get to go fishing? Will Foreman get his book back - and just what happened, decades in the past, when the old peanut oil factory burned down - the Day Jarrod Pope was a hero? Find out in the pages of The Crazy Case of Foreman James - the second Cletus J. Diggs supernatural mystery. Welcome to Old Mill.

Author : Tammy Williams
Publisher : Genesis Press (MS)
ISBN 13 : 9781585714100
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Not Quite Right written by Tammy Williams and published by Genesis Press (MS). This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a beautiful network television journalist reports the murder of her best friend to a detective who wants to rule the death as a suicide, they work together to solve the case--and wind up falling in love. Original.

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ISBN 13 : 9781905233632
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book NOT QUITE RIGHT FOR US. written by and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Zoist written by and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Pat Barker
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429923202
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Double Vision written by Pat Barker and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2004-12-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Double Vision from Pat Barker, a gripping novel about the effects of violence on the journalists and artists who have dedicated themselves to representing it In the aftermath of September 11, 2001, reeling from the effects of reporting from New York City, two British journalists, a writer, Stephen Sharkey, and a photographer, Ben Frobisher, part ways. Stephen, facing the almost simultaneous discovery that his wife is having an affair, returns to England shattered; he divorces and quits his job. Ben returns to his vocation. He follows the war on terror to Afghanistan and is killed. Stephen retreats to a cottage in the country to write a book about violence, and what he sees as the reporting journalist's or photographer's complicity in it; it is a book that will build in large part on Ben's writing and photography. Ben's widow, Kate, a sculptor, lives nearby, and as she and Stephen learn about each other their world speedily shrinks, in pleasing but also disturbing ways; Stephen's maid, with whom he has begun an affair, was once lovers with Kate's new studio assistant, an odd local man named Peter. As these connections become clear, Peter's strange behavior around Stephen and Kate begins to take on threatening implications. The sinister events that take place in this small town, so far from the theaters of war Stephen has retreated from, will force him to act instinctively, violently, and to face his most painful revelations about himself.