The Maths That Made Us by Michael Brooks – how numbers created civilisation – was one of the books I received as a Christmas gift. I spotted the book somewhere and added it to my wishlist and completely forgot about it. My husband bought it…
Cosmic Calculations by Rosa Maria Ros is book #30 in Our Mathematical World series by National Geographic. The first books seemed interesting, but not all in the series are equally interesting and there are 60 in total. But, this one was very nice. I’ve enjoyed…
Instant Mathematics by Paul Parsons and Gail Dixon* is the fourth book in the Instant series I read, see a list of the others and links to my reviews for them. I loved this book! I think it must have been my favourite or in…
Absolute Certainty and Other Fictions by Pere Grima – The Secrets of Statistics. This is book #13 in the Our Mathematical World collection by National Geographic. I’ve enjoyed reading it. It has some basic notions on experiments that I imagine most readers will remember; for…
At University I had a fabulous professor of statistics, so that year it was one of the subjects I liked best. By chance I’ve seen a book about statistics, The Art of Statistics by David Spiegelhalter, that was published this year. Thus, I borrowed it…
The Sect of Numbers: Pythagoras’ theorem is the 5th book in the series Our Mathematical World, by National Geographic. I’ve enjoyed this book a lot. Some of the books in the series might not be very entertaining, but this one was. Alsina integrated a few…