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    <title>Cracking mathematics</title>
    <subTitle>you, this book and 4,000 years of theories</subTitle>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Beveridge, Colin</namePart>
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    <publisher>Cassell Illustrated</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2016</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>400 pages:  illustrations (some colour), portraits</extent>
    <extent>17 cm</extent>
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  <abstract>The definitive guide to the world of mathematics.</abstract>
  <tableOfContents> 1: The deadly triangle and how maths developed2: The Renaissance, the negative and the imaginary3: Ancient regime4: The shoulders of giants5: The infinitesimal6: The French Revolution7: Powers and logarithms8: The curious maths of Alice in Wonderland9: The infinite, the undecidable and the computer10: How we write it11: The Scottish cafe12: Playing games13: Cracking codes14: A taste of the 20th century15: The Taming of the messy16: Modern Heroes</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Colin Beveridge.</note>
  <note>in English</note>
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    <topic>Mathematics</topic>
    <topic>Miscellanea</topic>
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    <topic>Mathematics</topic>
    <topic>History</topic>
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    <topic>Mathe´matiques</topic>
    <topic>Miscellane´es</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Mathe´matiques</topic>
    <topic>Histoire</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Mathematics</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">510 B57c c2016</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9781844038626</identifier>
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