It all adds up : (Record no. 667346)

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ISBN 9780008283933
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ISBN 0008283931
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ISBN 9780008283940 (pbk.)
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ISBN 000828394X (pbk.)
082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 510 LAU/I
Edition number 23
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME
Personal name Launay, Mickael,
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title It all adds up :
Sub Title the story of people and mathematics /
Statement of responsibility, etc Mickael Launay.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication . - London
Name of publisher : William Collins
Year of publication ,2018
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Number of Pages ix, 260 p. :
Other physical details ill. ;
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-248) and index.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc From our ability to calculate the passing of time to the algorithms that control computers and much else in our lives, numbers are everywhere. They are so indispensable that we forget how fundamental they are to our way of life. Mickaël Launay mixes history and anecdotes from around the world to reveal how mathematics became pivotal to the story of humankind. It is a journey into numbers with Launay as a guide. In museums, monuments or train stations, he uses the objects around us to explain what art can reveal about geometry, how Babylonian scholars developed one of the first complex written languages, and how Arabic numbers were adopted from India. "It All Adds Up" also tells the story of how mapping the trajectory of an eclipse has helped to trace the precise day of one of the oldest battles in history, how the course of the modern-day Greenwich Meridian was established, and why negative numbers were accepted just last century.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Mathematics
Form subdivision Popular works.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Mathematics
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