Mathematical Adventures

Ioanna Georgiou

• Publisher: Tarquin Group
• eBook ISBN:
  9781911093602
• Year: 2020

School mathematics sometimes excite and sometimes scare, and sadly, sometimes bore. In fact, elementary school arithmetic seems to get us through most situations. So why all the rest? This book aspires to give a glimpse into how things started and evolved, and how math can help us today, from simple measurements to navigating using mathematically simplified maps. The accompanying activities (some easier and some more challenging ones) aim to engage you with what was happening at a given time. Answers and explanations are in the end of the book.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Publisher's Note and Bibliographic
• About the Author and Illustrator
• Introductory and Acknowledgements
• Contents 1-15
• Contents 21-31
• Ancient Mathematics - Numbering Systems
• Ancient Mathematics - the Lebombo Bone
• Ancient Mathematics - the Ishango Bone
• The Egyptians and their Contemporaries - Babylonian Numbering Systems
• The Egyptians and their Contemporaries - Mayan Numbering Systems
• The Egyptians and their Contemporaries - The Pyramids
• The Egyptians and their Contemporaries - Rhind Mathematical Papyrus
• The Egyptians and their Contemporaries - The Eye of Horus
• Ancient Greek Mathematics
• Mathematics - Euclid and the Elements
• Hellenistic Mathematics - Hypatia
• Hindu-Arabic Mathematics
• Hindu-Arabic Mathematics - Al-Khwarismi
• Hindu-Arabic Mathematics - Simplifying Expressions
• Renaissance Mathematics - Fibonacci
• Early Modern Mathematics
• Early Modern Mathematics - Euler
• Modern Mathematics - Cantor and Infinite Infinities
• Answers