Secrets of Mental Math: The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks (repost)
Arthur Benjamin, Michael Shermer, "Secrets of Mental Math: The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks"
2006 | ISBN: 0307338401 | 305 pages | PDF | 2 MB
2006 | ISBN: 0307338401 | 305 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Mathematics is awonderful, elegant, and exceedingly useful language. It has its own vocabulary and syntax, its own verbs, nouns, and modifiers, and its own dialects and patois. It is used brilliantly by some, poorly by others. Someof us fear top ursue its more esoteric uses, while a few of us wield it like a sword to attack and conquer income tax forms or masses of data that resist the less courageous.This book does not guarantee to turn you into a Leibniz, or put youon stage as a Professor Algebra, but itwill, I hope, bring you a new, exciting, and even entertaining view of what can be done with that wonderful invention — numbers.