Did you know that it's easier to add and subtract from left to right, rather than the other way round? And that you can be taught to square a three-digit number in seconds?
In Think Like A Maths Genius, two mathematicians offer tips and tricks for doing tricky maths the easy way. With their help, you can learn how to perform lightning calculations in your head, discover methods of incredible memorisation and other feats of mental agility.
Learn maths secrets for the real world, from adding up your shopping and calculating a restaurant tip, to figuring out gambling odds (or how much you've won) and how to solve sudoku faster.
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Think Like A Maths Genius
The Art of Calculating in Your Head
- 303 pages
- English
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- Available on iOS & Android
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Epigraph
- Acknowledgments
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Prologue
- Introduction
- Chapter 0 : Quick Tricks: Easy (and Impressive) Calculations
- Chapter 1 : A Little Give and Take: Mental Addition and Subtraction
- Chapter 2 : Products of a Misspent Youth: Basic Multiplication
- Chapter 3 : New and Improved Products: Intermediate Multiplication
- Chapter 4 : Divide and Conquer: Mental Division
- Chapter 5 : Good Enough: The Art of “Guesstimation”
- Chapter 6 : Math for the Board: Pencil-and-Paper Math
- Chapter 7 : A Memorable Chapter: Memorizing Numbers
- Chapter 8 : The Tough Stuff Made Easy: Advanced Multiplication
- Chapter 9 : Presto-digit-ation: The Art of Mathematical Magic
- Chapter ∞ : Epilogue: How Math Helps Us Think About Weird Things
- Answers
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Authors
- Copyright
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