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It's a numberful world : how math is hiding everywhere

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  • Temps de fonctionnement: 05:12 hrs
    Voix de: Adam Lofbomm
    Publisher:
    Tantor Audio, 2019
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.
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    Temps de fonctionnement: 05:12 hrs
    Voix de: Adam Lofbomm
    Publisher:
    BC Libraries Cooperative, 2023
    Note: This book was produced with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Author: Woo, Eddie
    Contributor: Lofbomm, Adam
    Edition: Unabridged
    Date:
    Created
    2019
    Summary:

    Why aren't left-handers extinct? What makes a rainbow round? How is a pancreas . . . like a pendulum? These may not look like math questions, but they are-because they all have to do with patterns. And mathematics, at heart, is the study of patterns. That realization changed Eddie Woo's life-by turning the "dry" subject he dreaded in high school into a boundless quest for discovery. Now an award-winning math teacher, Woo sees patterns everywhere: in the "branches" of blood vessels and lightning, in the growth of a savings account and a sunflower, even in his morning cup of tea! Here are twenty-six bite-size chapters on the hidden mathematical marvels that encrypt our email, enchant our senses, and even keep us alive-from the sine waves we hear as "music" to the mysterious golden ratio. This book will change your mind about what math can be. We are all born mathematicians-and It's a Numberful World.

    Sujets: Mathematics
    Original Publisher: Old Saybrook, Tantor Audio
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781618032256