Readership: This book is designed to make mathematics accessible, interesting and entertaining to the non-expert: it will appeal to interested lay readers, school teachers, parents, and mathematics, physics, engineering, and computer science students from ages fifteen to fifty.
David Acheson, Fellow, Jesus College, Oxford
"Thought provoking." - THES
"Popular maths is not easy to do, but David Acheson has really achieved it with this pocket-sized gem of a book." - Brian Clegg, Popular Science
1: 1089 and All That 2: "In Love with Geometrie" 3: But ... that's Absurd ... 4: The Trouble with Algebra 5: The Heavens in Motion 6: All Change! 7: On Being as Small as Possible 8: "Are We Nearly There?" 9: A Brief History of pi 10: Good Vibrations 11: Great Mistakes 12: What is the Secret of All Life? 13: e=2.718 ... 14: Chaos and Catastrophe 15: Not Quite the Indian Rope Trick 16: Real or Imaginary?
1089 and All That on OUP website Elementary Fluid Dynamics on OUP website From Calculus to Chaos on OUP website
