Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. by Lancelot Hogben Publisher: George Allen & Unwin Year Published: 1953 Condition: GOOD Folio: N/A Signed: N/A 1st Edition: N/A Ex-Library: N/A Dust jacket: No Dust jacket condition: No Jacket Pagination: 694 Edition: N/A ISBN: N/A Reference: 1679905694ADA Image note: Image taken of actual book Description: 1953. Mathematics For The Million: A Popular Self Educator. Shop Categories Fiction Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure Journals and Magazines Art, Fashion & Photography Biography & True Stories Classics, Poetry & Drama General Non-Fiction Humanities Social Sciences Economics Law Medicine Science Technology, Engineering & Agri Children's Myths, Legends & Supernatural Ephemera Vintage Collections Wholesale Vinyl Auctions Mathematics For The Million: A Popular Self Educator.
Suggest that as a follow through if you turn up a budding mathematician with this.Seller: worldofrarebooks ✉️ (161.420) 99.8%, Hogben as a popularizer of science won his spurs with the inimitable Mathematics for the Million.
Over 250 pictures in full color add their own dramatization to the text. Adults will find this enlightening, and any youngsters with a mathematical bent will find it sheer enchantment. The miracle of counting, of making records, of extending this new knowledge to building and planning and sailing the seas the interchange of knowledge between early Mediterranean civilizations the coming of the mathematical wizards such as Galileo, Descartes, Newton and the foundations laid for mathematics as we know it today the discovery and gradual acceptance of basic fundamentals - all this made today's civilization possible. For here- through the discovery of the basic principles of numbers and measurements, civilization takes form. Properly used, it should make mathematics seem a live, human science to Junior High School students who are inclined to think of it in dreary terms.
This is a more mature and more highly specialized book than The Wonderful World.
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