How to Solve the Da Vinci Code

Can you outrun a bullet?

How do you build an electronic brain?

Could you slow down time?

How do you unleash chaos?

From Plato's classification of regular polyhedra to making a million on the stock market, How to Solve the Da Vinci Code gives you everything you need to understand how numbers work, and the impact they have on our lives every day.

“'Here is a brilliantly conceived book on the history, working and going-ons of mathematics ... Go out and get a copy for yourself today and become the maths boffin your teacher always wished you were!' Vision Magazine.”

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Dr Richard Elwes is a writer, teacher and researcher in Mathematics and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Leeds. He contributes to New Scientist and Plus Magazine and publishes research on model theory. He is the author of Mathematics 1001 published by Quercus.

Is mathematics a subject you avoid at all costs? Terrifying, mystifying and boring in equal measure? Forget the equations you tried to solve at school and enter the mind-expanding world of modern mathematics. Tricky concepts including irrational numbers, chaos theory, infinity, and why greengrocers always stack their oranges like that, are explained in a way that everyone can understand. Whether you want to get to grips with the mysteries of prime numbers of Fermat's last theorem, or are hoping to make a million on the stock market, this is the perfect introduction to maths and its many fascinating uses.

Can you outrun a bullet? How do you build an electronic brain? Could you slow down time? How do you unleash chaos? From Plato's classification of regular polyhedra to making a million on the stock market, How to Solve the Da Vinci Code gives you everything you need to understand how numbers work, and the impact they have on our lives every day.

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