Mathematical Adventures Book: An Illustrated Journey Through the History of Maths - Tarquin

Mathematical Adventures is a beautiful, lively journey through history that puts the mathematics we do at school in context.

Come on a journey from ancient counting, geometry, the invention of algebra, multiple infinities and so much more to find out how and why mathematics developed through the centuries and how we can approach it and make better sense of it through some great stories.

Readers – and their parents and teachers – will see the origins of the techniques and tasks that they do as part of the curriculum. What often is presented out of context, suddenly will have context. 

Mathematics, like everything else, needs rooting in everyday life, in the excitement of discoveries past, in cultural shifts and past achievements. Taught without that context, there is a danger of the “why-do-we-study-this” question turning students off. Readers of this wonderful book will never be in such danger. Even better, in the later chapters the book opens reader’s minds to the wider wonderful world of mathematics.

This book gives a glimpse into how things started and evolved, and how mathematics can help us from simple measurements to navigating ourselves using mathematically simplified tube maps.

The stories come up roughly in a chronological order and the accompanying activities (some easier and some more challenging ones) aim to get you engaged with what was happening at a given time. There are answers and explanations about all tasks in the end of the book.

Contents :

• Ancient Mathematics
• Hellenistic Mathematics
• The Egyptians and their Contemporaries
• Greek Mathematics
• Hindu-Arabic Mathematics
• Renaissance Mathematics
• Early Modern Mathematics
• Modern Mathematics

Elegantly illustrated and sparingly written, it is suitable for anybody aged 10 and up.

ISBN 9781907550201