The Joy of X By More By: Steven H. Strogatz

The Joy of X By More By: Steven H. StrogatzMaths is everywhere, often where we don't even realise. Award winning professor Steven Strogatz acts as our guide as he takes us on a tour of numbers that unbeknownst to the unitiated connect pop culture, literature, art, philosophy, current affairs, business and even every day life. In The Joy of X, Strogatz explains the great ideas of maths from negative numbers to calculus, fat tails to infinity with clarity, wit and insight. He is the maths

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