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Murderous Maths - Kjartan Poskitt
Years 7 - 10
There's lots of funny people in this book doing maths tricks and magic. The Evil Gollarks keep turning up to try and invade Earth and find it's a really scary place! The Greeks were dying of plague until Murderous Maths shows them how to double a cube which they couldn't do. And you find out how to make your birthday last twice as long! The cartoons are brilliant and the stories are really funny. It's so good you forget its a maths book.
The code book - Simon singh
Years 10 - 13
Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing the dramatic effects codes have had on wars, nations, and individual lives. From Mary, Queen of Scots, trapped by her own code, to the Navajo Code Talkers who helped the Allies win World War II, to the incredible (and incredibly simple) logistical breakthrough that made Internet commerce secure.
A mathematicians apology - G. H. Hardy
Years 10 - 13
A poignant, moving book by the brilliant mathematician G.H. Hardy, as he grew older in ‘a young mans field’. An account of his life and his passion for mathematics.
Finding moonshine Marcus - Du Sautoy
Years 10 - 13
This is the story of how humankind has come to its understanding of the bizarre world of symmetry – a subject of fundamental significance to the way we interpret the world around us.
Build A Roller Coaster - Hillary Koll
Year 7 - 10
Step into the shoes of a roller coaster designer and use your maths skills to build a hair-raising, stomach-churning new theme park ride. Use numbers, plans, shapes and measures. Calculate lengths, heights, distances and times. And use maths to produce the biggest fear factor! Numeracy work includes: numbers and the number system; calculations; handling data; measures; solving problems; and shape and space.
Fermat's last theorem - Simon singh
Years 10 - 13
‘I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.’ It was with these words, written in the 1630s, that Pierre de Fermat intrigued and infuriated the mathematics community. For over 350 years, proving Fermat’s Last Theorem was the most notorious unsolved mathematical problem, a puzzle whose basics most children could grasp but whose solution eluded the greatest minds in the world. In 1993, after years of secret toil, Englishman Andrew Wiles announced to an astounded audience that he had cracked Fermat’s Last Theorem. He had no idea of the nightmare that lay ahead.
The music of the primes - Marcus Du Sautoy
Years 10 - 13
Du Suatoy describes one of the central problems of mathematics and the work towards proving it (as yet unfinished). This is a biography of the great mathematicians who have work on this problem.
The number mysteries - Marcus Du Sautoy
Years 10 - 13
Du Sautoy covers everything from internet credit-card security to the maths behind making the roundest football, he digs up the unusual places where maths lurks in the real world, he demonstrates how relevant these mathematical mysteries are to our everyday lives.
1089 and all that - David Acheson
Years 10 - 13
A lovely little book that provides a mini tour of many mathematical gems. Discover the magic of 1089 and the mathematics behind the Indian rope trick.
The Big Book of Brain Games - Martin Gardner
Year 7 - 10
Very attractive with a wide range of problems
Mathemagical - Colin Davies
Year 7 - 10
An Alice in wonderland style tale set in the land mathematics
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