Matador Non-Fiction
 
Maths for the Mystified
An exploration of the history of mathematics and its relationship to modern-day science & computing
£14.99


"should spur the book’s readers to want to study the subject to an even greater depth."
Kybernetes Journal
by Dr Michael J. de Smith (About the Author)
Published: 28 September 2006

Maths for the Mystified gives readers a brief but wide-ranging introduction to the history of mathematics, algebra, number theory, finite and infinite series, trigonometry, calculus, statistics and computational mathematics... all without recourse to higher mathematics.

Part I provides the foundations, explaining the origins of our numbers system and the notation used, and exploring topics such as the determination of times and distances. Part II takes things further, using computers as a tool, and Part III concludes with an exploration with details of a wide range of interesting numbers and number sequences.

ISBN: 9781905237814