Gareth Roberts

Gareth Roberts

<p><strong>Gareth Roberts</strong> a écrit plusieurs scénarios pour <em>Doctor Who</em> ainsi que pour <em>The Sarah Jane Adventures</em>, une série inspirée de l'univers<em> Doctor Who</em>. Il est aussi l'auteur de neuf romans contant les aventures de l'inénarrable Docteur. Il habite dans le West London.</p>

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Gareth Roberts
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Mathematics, like language, is a universal experience. Every society counts and is empowered by its ability to count and to measure. The mathematical processes developed within various cultures differ widely, and Count Us In explores these cultural links, drawing examples from the author’s personal experiences. The process of counting, like the process of communicating with words, is common to all societies worldwide but, just as there is a rich variety of languages, so too is there a rich variety in methods of counting and of recording numbers – methods that have developed over centuries to meet the needs of various groups of people. The narrative of this book takes the form of a collection of short stories based on the author’s personal experience, linked together by a number of sub-themes. As a popular book on mathematics and on the personalities who created that mathematics, there are no prerequisites beyond the reader’s rudimentary and possibly hazy recollection of primary-school mathematics and a curiosity to know more.Figures and plates Acknowledgements Foreword 1 More cabbage, anyone? 2 Meeting of minds 3 Nothing will come of nothing 4 Setting the Recorde straight 5 Neither a borrower nor a lender be 6 Amazing Mayans 7 What do you reckon? 8 Prairie power 9 Putting down digital roots 10 Areas of (mis)understanding 11 Cracking the code 12 Does mathematics have a gender? 13 How to make maths real for all of us Appendix Answers to Puzzles Notes on Chapters Further Reading

Count Us In
Gareth Roberts
2h01min30
Sciences formelles
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162 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h01min.
Mathematics, like language, is a universal experience. Every society counts and is empowered by its ability to count and to measure. The mathematical processes developed within various cultures differ widely, and Count Us In explores these cultural links, drawing examples from the author’s personal experiences. The process of counting, like the process of communicating with words, is common to all societies worldwide but, just as there is a rich variety of languages, so too is there a rich variety in methods of counting and of recording numbers – methods that have developed over centuries to meet the needs of various groups of people. The narrative of this book takes the form of a collection of short stories based on the author’s personal experience, linked together by a number of sub-themes. As a popular book on mathematics and on the personalities who created that mathematics, there are no prerequisites beyond the reader’s rudimentary and possibly hazy recollection of primary-school mathematics and a curiosity to know more.Figures and plates Acknowledgements Foreword 1 More cabbage, anyone? 2 Meeting of minds 3 Nothing will come of nothing 4 Setting the Recorde straight 5 Neither a borrower nor a lender be 6 Amazing Mayans 7 What do you reckon? 8 Prairie power 9 Putting down digital roots 10 Areas of (mis)understanding 11 Cracking the code 12 Does mathematics have a gender? 13 How to make maths real for all of us Appendix Answers to Puzzles Notes on Chapters Further Reading

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