Handy Math Answer Book - Brossura

Svarney, Thomas E.; Varnes-svarney, Patricia

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1578591716 ISBN 13: 9781578591718

Casa editrice: Visible Ink Pr, 2005

Riassunto

From modern-day challenges such as balancing a checkbook, following the stock market, buying a home, and figuring out credit card finance charges to appreciating historical developments like the use of algebra by Mesopotamian mathematicians, this engaging resource addresses more than 1,000 questions relating to mathematics. Providing a complete overview?beginning with the early history of Pythagoras, Archimedes, and how some of the first calendars were invented?this guide helps answer questions surrounding the basics and fundamentals of algebra, calculus, geometry, and trigonometry. Organized in 16 chapters that cluster similar topics in an easily accessible format, this reference provides clear and concise explanations to paradoxes, theories, fundamentals of geometry, and other branches of mathematics, plus the numbers we see daily in statistics, financial and market reports, weather forecasts, real estate evaluations, games, and measurements of all kinds.

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L'autore:

Patricia Barnes-Svarney has been a nonfiction science and science fiction writer for more than 15 years. She has a master's degree in geography/geomorphology and has worked professionally as a geomorphologist and oceanographer. She has written or coauthored more than 300 articles for science magazines and journals. Thomas E. Svarney is a scientist, naturalist, and artist. They are the coauthors of numerous science books, including The Handy Geology Answer Book.

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Book by Patricia BarnesSvarney Thomas E Svarney

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Visible Ink Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1578591716
• ISBN 13: 9781578591718
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 506