501 Things You Should Have Learned About Math

If you're honest how much do you really know about any of this stuff? The older we get the less we seem to know and the less time we have to bone up on the essentials. One day, you tell yourself, you'll get round to finding out. Well that day has arrived, so welcome to your intensive, instructive primer. This eminently browsable book presents history's greatest mathematicians and mathematical discoveries in fascinating, easy-to-understand chunks. You'll learn about Archimedes, Pythagoras, Isaac Newton and how their experiments and breakthroughs have changed the world. You'll learn how "zero" came to life, how geometry was discovered and how mathematicians throughout history have cracked the world's most challenging conundrums. So if you don't know your Fibonacci from your tagliatelle what are you waiting for?