Mind-boggling Numbers

Mind-boggling Numbers

Author: Michael J. Rosen

Publisher: Millbrook Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 1467734896

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"This book presents a series of goofy questions that will help kids understand various mind-boggling math concepts."--


Mind-Boggling Statistics

Mind-Boggling Statistics

Author: Zahid Ameer

Publisher: Zahid Ameer

Published: 2024-04-19

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13:

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Explore the captivating world of statistics in 'Mind-Boggling Statistics: The Fascinating Numbers Shaping Our World.' From population explosions to social media influence, this eBook delves into the data driving global trends. Discover eye-opening insights and thought-provoking analyses that illuminate the complexities of our modern world. Get ready to be fascinated by the numbers shaping our collective future.


Adam Spencer's Enormous Book of Numbers

Adam Spencer's Enormous Book of Numbers

Author: Adam Spencer

Publisher: Xoum

Published: 2015-11

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9781921134883

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Adam Spencer's Enormous Book of Numbers is jam-packed with stuff to make, decode, deduce, descramble, dewrite and decipher! Counting has never been so cool.


Numbers

Numbers

Author: Tom Jackson

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9781627950732

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Think math is boring? Think again! Numbers: How Counting Changed the World cracks open the history of numbers to explore the surprising, fascinating, and sometimes mind-boggling evolution of mathematics through the ages.


Satan, Cantor, And Infinity And Other Mind-bogglin

Satan, Cantor, And Infinity And Other Mind-bogglin

Author: Raymond M. Smullyan

Publisher: Knopf

Published: 2012-05-30

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 0307819825

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More than two hundred new and challenging logic puzzles—the simplest brainteaser to the most complex paradoxes in contemporary mathematical thinking—from our topmost puzzlemaster (“the most entertaining logician who ever lived,” Martin Gardner has called him). Our guide to the puzzles is the Sorcerer, who resides on the Island of Knights and Knaves, where knights always tell the truth and knaves always lie, and he introduces us to the amazing magic—logic—that enables to discover which inhabitants are which. Then, in a picaresque adventure in logic, he takes us to the planet Og, to the Island of Partial Silence, and to a land where metallic robots wearing strings of capital letters are noisily duplicating and dismantling themselves and others. The reader’s job is to figure out how it all works. Finally, we accompany the Sorcerer on an alluring tour of Infinity which includes George Cantor’s amazing mathematical insights. The tour (and the book) ends with Satan devising a diabolical puzzle for one of Cantor’s prize students—who outwits him! In sum: a devilish magician’s cornucopia of puzzles—a delight for every age and level of ability.


Really Big Numbers

Really Big Numbers

Author: Richard Evan Schwartz

Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.

Published: 2014-06-30

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1470414252

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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.


Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them

Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them

Author: Antonio Padilla

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2022-07-26

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 0374600570

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A fun, dazzling exploration of the strange numbers that illuminate the ultimate nature of reality. For particularly brilliant theoretical physicists like James Clerk Maxwell, Paul Dirac, or Albert Einstein, the search for mathematical truths led to strange new understandings of the ultimate nature of reality. But what are these truths? What are the mysterious numbers that explain the universe? In Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them, the leading theoretical physicist and YouTube star Antonio Padilla takes us on an irreverent cosmic tour of nine of the most extraordinary numbers in physics, offering a startling picture of how the universe works. These strange numbers include Graham’s number, which is so large that if you thought about it in the wrong way, your head would collapse into a singularity; TREE(3), whose finite nature can never be definitively proved, because to do so would take so much time that the universe would experience a Poincaré Recurrence—resetting to precisely the state it currently holds, down to the arrangement of individual atoms; and 10^{-120}, measuring the desperately unlikely balance of energy needed to allow the universe to exist for more than just a moment, to extend beyond the size of a single atom—in other words, the mystery of our unexpected universe. Leading us down the rabbit hole to a deeper understanding of reality, Padilla explains how these unusual numbers are the key to understanding such mind-boggling phenomena as black holes, relativity, and the problem of the cosmological constant—that the two best and most rigorously tested ways of understanding the universe contradict one another. Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them is a combination of popular and cutting-edge science—and a lively, entertaining, and even funny exploration of the most fundamental truths about the universe.


Calculating Chimpanzees, Brainy Bees, and Other Animals with Mind-Blowing Mathematical Abilities

Calculating Chimpanzees, Brainy Bees, and Other Animals with Mind-Blowing Mathematical Abilities

Author: Stephanie Gibeault

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Published: 2024-05-07

Total Pages: 97

ISBN-13: 1536237469

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Could your pet help you with your math homework? Discover how amazing animals use number sense in this fun and fact-filled investigation. Animals know a lot more about numbers than you might think. Guppies can tell large numbers from small ones, hyenas can count, and chimpanzees can use Arabic numerals! Readers will get to know these extraordinary animals and more—and how scientists study their number sense. Each chapter wraps up with an interview with a researcher and a hands-on activity that give readers the chance to challenge their own math skills. Illustrations brimming with personality, along with colorful photos, sidebars, and splashy facts, make for an entertaining delve into these fascinating studies in this second book in the Extraordinary Animals series. A bibliography as well as an “Add to Your Knowledge” section at the back encourage more discovery.


Revealing Arithmetic

Revealing Arithmetic

Author: Katherine Hannon

Publisher: New Leaf Publishing Group

Published: 2021-04-12

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 1614587760

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For years, Christian math books have looked basically like secular textbooks, with the addition of a Bible verse here or there. Here, at last, is a book to help you transform your math class and show your child God’s handiwork in math! Revealing Arithmetic will help you: Teach math from a biblical worldview. Worship the Lord in math. Help your child really understand concepts. Train your child to think mathematically. Transform everyday activities and objects into math lessons. Teach your child to use math as a real-life tool. Explore historical methods and symbols. This book is designed for homeschool parents needing a simple math guide to use alongside their curriculum and help them teach arithmetic to elementary students, older students needing a review of math basics before moving on to advanced mathematics, or Christian school or co-op teachers (or future teachers) wanting ideas on how to modify the curriculum to better reveal the truth of a Creator God.