At the heart of relativity theory, quantum mechanics, string theory, and much of modern cosmology lies one concept: symmetry. In Why Beauty Is Truth, world-famous mathematician Ian Stewart narrates the history of the emergence of this remarkable area of study. Stewart introduces us to such characters as the Renaissance Italian genius, rogue, scholar, and gambler Girolamo Cardano, who stole the …
How many naughty rabbits are eating radishes in Mr. McGregor's garden? How many kittens does Mrs. Tabitha Twitchit have? Young children will have fun learning the numbers from one to ten with Peter Rabbit and his friends. On each page, there are favorite characters to count with scenes from Beatrix Potter's classic stories. The book features a die-cut design and ten colorful counting beads that…
Petros Papachristos devotes the early part of his life trying to prove one of the greatest mathematical challenges of all time: Goldbach's Conjecture, the deceptively simple claim that every even number greater than two is the sum of two primes. Against a tableau of famous historical figures-among them G.H. Hardy, the self-taught Indian genius Srinivasa Ramanujan, and a young Kurt Godel-Petros …