Ian Stewart
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Bestselling author Professor Ian Stewart explores the history and mathematics of uncertainty. Touching on gambling, probability, statistics, financial and weather forecasts, censuses, medical studies, chaos, quantum physics, and climate, he makes one thing clear: a reasonable probability is the only certainty.
Author
Series
Science of Discworld volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Not just another science book and not just another Discworld novella, The Science of Discworld is a creative, mind-bending mash-up of fiction and fact, that offers a wizard’s-eye view of our world that will forever change how you look at the universe.
Can Unseen University’s eccentric wizards and orangutan Librarian possibly shed any useful light on hard, rational Earthly science?
In the course
Author
Publisher
Perseus Pub
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The first-ever annotated edition of the beloved classic is beautifully illustrated and brilliantly brought to life for a new generation of readers. Published in 1884 by an English clergyman and headmaster, it is a fanciful tale of A. Square, a two-dimensional being visiting a three-dimensional world.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
"For more than two thousand years a familiarity with mathematics has been regarded as an indispensable part of the intellectual equipment of every cultured person. Today, unfortunately, the traditional place of mathematics in education is in grave danger. The teaching and learning of mathematics has degenerated into the realm of rote memorization, the outcome of which leads to satisfactory formal ability but does not lead to real understanding or...
Author
Series
Science of Discworld volume 3
Publisher
Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The wizard scholars of Unseen University wrestle with the popularity of a theory of theological design put forth by a man named Darwin.