Description
The Math Book tells the story of how mathematics advanced through history. You don’t have to be a math expert to follow along with this book! This book is packed with short, easy-to-grasp explanations, step-by-step diagrams, and illustrations that play with our ideas about numbers.
What is an imaginary number? Can two parallel lines ever meet? How can math help us predict the future? Discover more than 85 of the most important mathematical ideas, theorems, and proofs ever devised with this beautifully illustrated book. Get to know the great minds whose revolutionary discoveries changed our world today.
This book charts the development of math around the world, from ancient mathematical ideas and inventions like prehistoric tally bones through developments in medieval and Renaissance Europe. Fast forward to today and gain insight into the rise of game and group theory.
Delve in deeper into the history of math:
– Ancient and Classical Periods 6000 BCE – 500 CE
– The Middle Ages 500 – 1500
– The Renaissance 1500 – 1680
– The Enlightenment 1680 – 1800
– The 19th Century 1800 – 1900
– Modern Mathematics 1900 – Present
