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Is That a Big Number
Author | : Andrew Elliott |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2018-06-28 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 9780192554413 |
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Impressive statistics are thrown at us every day - the cost of health care; the size of an earthquake; the distance to the nearest star; the number of giraffes in the world. We know all these numbers are important - some more than others - and it's vaguely unsettling when we don't really have a clear sense of how remarkable or how ordinary they are. How do we work out what these figures actually mean? Are they significant, should we be worried, or excited, or impressed? How big is big, how small is small? With this entertaining and engaging book, help is at hand. Andrew Elliott gives us the tips and tools to make sense of numbers, to get a sense of proportion, to decipher what matters. It is a celebration of a numerate way of understanding the world. It shows how number skills help us to understand the everyday world close at hand, and how the same skills can be stretched to demystify the bigger numbers that we find in the wider contexts of science, politics, and the universe. Entertaining, full of practical examples, and memorable concepts, Is That A Big Number? renews our relationship with figures. If numbers are the musical notes with which the symphony of the universe is written, and you're struggling to hear the tune, then this is the book to get you humming again.
Is That a Big Number
Author | : Andrew Elliott |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2018-06-14 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 9780192554420 |
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Impressive statistics are thrown at us every day - the cost of health care; the size of an earthquake; the distance to the nearest star; the number of giraffes in the world. We know all these numbers are important - some more than others - and it's vaguely unsettling when we don't really have a clear sense of how remarkable or how ordinary they are. How do we work out what these figures actually mean? Are they significant, should we be worried, or excited, or impressed? How big is big, how small is small? With this entertaining and engaging book, help is at hand. Andrew Elliott gives us the tips and tools to make sense of numbers, to get a sense of proportion, to decipher what matters. It is a celebration of a numerate way of understanding the world. It shows how number skills help us to understand the everyday world close at hand, and how the same skills can be stretched to demystify the bigger numbers that we find in the wider contexts of science, politics, and the universe. Entertaining, full of practical examples, and memorable concepts, Is That A Big Number? renews our relationship with figures. If numbers are the musical notes with which the symphony of the universe is written, and you're struggling to hear the tune, then this is the book to get you humming again.
Really Big Numbers
Author | : Richard Evan Schwartz |
Publsiher | : American Mathematical Soc. |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2014-06-30 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 9781470414252 |
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In the American Mathematical Society's first-ever book for kids (and kids at heart), mathematician and author Richard Evan Schwartz leads math lovers of all ages on an innovative and strikingly illustrated journey through the infinite number system. By means of engaging, imaginative visuals and endearing narration, Schwartz manages the monumental task of presenting the complex concept of Big Numbers in fresh and relatable ways. The book begins with small, easily observable numbers before building up to truly gigantic ones, like a nonillion, a tredecillion, a googol, and even ones too huge for names! Any person, regardless of age, can benefit from reading this book. Readers will find themselves returning to its pages for a very long time, perpetually learning from and growing with the narrative as their knowledge deepens. Really Big Numbers is a wonderful enrichment for any math education program and is enthusiastically recommended to every teacher, parent and grandparent, student, child, or other individual interested in exploring the vast universe of numbers.
Land of Big Numbers
Author | : Te-Ping Chen |
Publsiher | : Mariner Books |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780358272557 |
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"A debut story collection offering a kaleidoscopic portrait of life for contemporary Chinese people, set between China and the United States"--
The Little Big Number
Author | : Dirk Philipsen |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2015-05-26 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780691166520 |
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A professor of economic history discusses why he believes the Gross Domestic Product, a measure of output, should not be the sole indicator of economic performance and outlines a way to develop smarter measurements and goals.
Think of a Number
Author | : Johnny Ball |
Publsiher | : Dorling Kindersley Ltd |
Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 2016-01-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780241255391 |
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Join TV Presenter, Johnny Ball for an incredible number-filled adventure, cracking secret codes and unravelling mazes Let your child join Johnny Ball on a dazzling maths adventure to infinity and beyond. They'll find out maths isn't just about sums and calculations, but how numbers can take them anywhere! Watch as they learn to test their friends with magic tricks, discover mind-reading techniques and find out about the simple puzzles that stumped the world's brainiest mathematicians for centuries. So if your child thinks maths is boring - help them think again with Johnny Ball!
Cell Biology by the Numbers
Author | : Ron Milo,Rob Phillips |
Publsiher | : Garland Science |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2015-12-07 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781317230694 |
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A Top 25 CHOICE 2016 Title, and recipient of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title (OAT) Award. How much energy is released in ATP hydrolysis? How many mRNAs are in a cell? How genetically similar are two random people? What is faster, transcription or translation?Cell Biology by the Numbers explores these questions and dozens of others provid
Know Your Chances
Author | : Steven Woloshin,Lisa Miriam Schwartz,Lisa M. Schwartz,H. Gilbert Welch |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2008-11-30 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780520252226 |
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Understanding risk -- Putting risk in perspective -- Risk charts : a way to get perspective -- Judging the benefit of a health intervention -- Not all benefits are equal : understand the outcome -- Consider the downsides -- Do the benefits outweight the downsides? -- Beware of exaggerated importance -- Beware of exaggerated certainty -- Who's behind the numbers?