Meet Alan Turing. Famous mathematician, cryptographer, and…superhero! This book shares the amazing story of Alan Turing and how he used his astonishing superpower of curiosity to overcome obstacles and solve problems. Follow along as Alan uses his super curiosity to discover patterns, crack codes, and save the world! Includes a glossary, timeline, activities, and bonus facts about ciphers and codes.
At a young age Benjamin displayed a keen aptitude for mathematics and science. Inspired by a pocket watch he had seen, at the age of 22 he built a strike clock based on his own drawings and using a pocket-knife. This picture book biography focuses on one episode in his remarkable life.
In this engaging and inspiring biography, a groundbreaking but relatively unknown woman finally gets her due as one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century. Emmy Noether is not pretty, quiet, good at housework or eager to marry — all the things a German girl is expected to be in her time. What she is, though, is a genius at math. When she grows up, she finds a way to first study math at a university (by sitting in, not actually enrolling) and then to teach it (by doing so for free). She also manages to do her own research into some of the most pressing math and physics problems of the day. And though she doesn’t get much credit during her lifetime, her discoveries continue to influence how we understand the world today.
This book brings geometry to life with Euclid explaining the principles of Geometry to his friends. Full of fun, explanation and even jokes, this is the perfect introduction to a sometimes tricky subject. Euclid lived 2300 years ago in Alexandria, in northern Egypt. His was a brilliant mind. He devised a method of learning Geometry starting from the simplest idea - an Axiom - something we can all agree is self-evident.
A boy must prove he is a genius with numbers before he can study to become the famous mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss. Follow along with young Johann as his curiosity with numbers is finally noticed by Schoolmaster Buttner in this delightful and engaging story! The story is fictional but based on real life events. Readers of all ages will enjoy learning a little math and history through fun and informative storytelling.
Évariste Galois, mort tragiquement lors d'un duel à ses vingt ans, a, malgré la brièveté de sa vie, beaucoup fait parler de lui. En effet, on lui doit la célèbre “théorie de Galois”, qui a influencé toute une branche des mathématiques contemporaines.
Hypatia of Alexandria was one of the world’s first female mathematicians. Socrates himself claimed that she “far surpassed all the philosophers of her time,”and her inventions and teachings changed life as it was known in the ancient Greco-Roman Empire. Hypatia was an astronomer, scholar, and teacher, but if anyone were to ask her what she loved most, the answer would always be math!
A must-read book for every Math enthusiast! India's mathematicians have made significant contributions over the last 5000 years. From the ever-popular Aryabhata, widely recognized for revolutionizing the number system and Shakuntala Devi, universally admired for her fast mental calculations to pioneers forgotten by time, like Baudhayana, who explained the Pythagoras' theorem nearly 3000 years ago, and Anand Kumar of the Super 30 fame, among others.
"This book's appealing narrative zeroes in on Newton’s curiosity and hunger to learn about the world, characteristics likely to resonate with children today. Young readers will come away with plenty of facts about the scientist, but they also might chuckle at his antics and absentmindedness.” —Booklist
Meet Katherine Johnson, a brilliant mathematician who worked at NASA in the early 1950s until retiring in 1986. Katherine’s unparalleled calculations (done by hand) helped plan the trajectories for NASA’s Mercury and Apollo missions (including the Apollo 11 moon landing). She is said to be one of the greatest American minds of all time.
Biography of the boy who was once teased for being a blockhead and how he discovered what came to be known as the Fibonacci Sequence.
His ideas turned the mathematical world on its head. He calculated the currents of liquids, the moment of inertia, developed the calculus of variations and the modern number theory. As scientist he should be placed on the same level as Newton and Einstein. Engineers all over the world use his formulas every day – whether it be for constructing the hull of the "Alinghi" or for calculating the vibrations of the "Viaduc de Millau", the world's highest motorway bridge.
Maryam loved school, especially her classes in reading and writing. But she did not like math. Numbers were nowhere near as interesting as the bold, adventurous characters she found in books. Until Maryam unexpectedly discovered a new genre of storytelling: In geometry, numbers became shapes, each with its own fascinating personality—making every equation a brilliant story waiting to be told.
THE BOY WHO LOVED MATH: THE IMPROBABLE LIFE OF PAUL ERDOS is a captivating biography that sheds light on the extraordinary life of Paul Erdos, a renowned mathematician.What sets Erdos apart is not only his mathematical brilliance but also his unconventional lifestyle.
A toddler captivated by patterns... A little boy filling his slate with numbers, rubbing them out with his elbow and starting again... A teenager solving complex maths problems... A young man matching the best minds in Cambridge… Following his singular fascination with numbers, the award-winning book brings to children the story of the brilliant mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan for whom numbers 'made patterns only he could see.'
Meet Raye Montague – a "hidden figure" who made waves in the U.S. Navy! After touring a German submarine in the early 1940s, young Raye set her sights on becoming an engineer. Little did she know sexism and racial inequality would challenge that dream every step of the way, even keeping her greatest career accomplishment a secret for decades. Through it all, the gifted mathematician persisted finally gaining her well-deserved title in history: a pioneer who changed the course of ship design forever.
