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Leonhard Euler was one of the greatest and most prolific mathematicians of all time. His work was of vital importance to a bewildering variety of fields, many of which he himself created
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Imagine that on your first day training to be a builder you are given a set of toy blocks with which to build a model house.
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A review of a book as good as this must either repeat the positive adjectives other reviewers have used, or require a very large thesaurus.
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The movie is based on one of the best mathematical tales ever written. Inhabiting a two-dimensional world populated by polygons and ruled by circular tyrants, a bright young hexagon, through sheer mathematical willpower, imagines a third dimension.
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Given that 14 billion years have elapsed since the birth of the Universe and that the cosmos contains a mind-boggling 1024 stars, can Earth really be the only planet in the entire Universe to contain life?
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The basis of this wonderful book came in a series of questions about modern maths sent to Philip Davis by a friend of his, Christina.
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