While all of us regularly use basic math symbols such as those for plus, minus, and equals, few of us know that many of these symbols weren't available before the sixteenth century. What did mathematicians rely on for their work before then? And how...
Esperanza de vida, tasa de siniestralidad, tablas, promedios… cada día recibimos centenares de datos estadísticos, a menudo sin tener las herramientas suficientes para analizarlos. El objetivo de este libro es ayudar al lector a desarrollar y...
What can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe? Surely, theoretical physicists are immune to mere trends, dogmatic beliefs, or flights of fancy? In fact, acclaimed...
Fermat’s Last Theorem is the most notorious problem in the history of mathematics and surrounding it is one of the greatest stories imaginable. This section explains what the theorem is, who invented it and who eventually proved it. When finished,...