Recognized as the father of analytic geometry, René Descartes was a French mathematician and philosopher. Kids will love this funny and very accessible tale - based on one of math's greatest myths - about the man who popularized the Cartesion system of coordinates.
When her parents took away her candles to keep their young daughter from studying math...nothing stopped Sophie. When a professor discovered that the homework sent to him under a male pen name came from a woman...nothing stopped Sophie. And when she tackled a math problem that male scholars said would be impossible to solve...still, nothing stopped Sophie.
This inspiring title tells the story of Sophie's journey as the first woman to receive a doctorate in mathematics, which required original research, holding a university chair in mathematics, and becoming the editor of a major scientific journal.
This book looks at the history of mathematical discoveries and the lives of great mathematicians. In this book, we learn about Thales, Pythagoras, Archimedes, Hypatia, Napier, Galileo, Pascal, Newton, Euler, Lagrange, Germain, Gauss, Galois, Noether, and Ramanujan
A funny, entertaining introduction to Ben Franklin and his many inventions, including the story of how he created the "magic square." A magic square is a box of nine numbers arranged so that any line of three numbers adds up to the same number, including on the diagonal!
William Playfair was a dreamer and a joker. He saw the world differently from most and wasn’t one to always follow the rules. The scientists of his day believed in numbers and formulas, and turned up their noses at his zany idea to present data visually. But Will was sure that his line graphs, bar graphs and pie charts would help people understand information more easily. And now, more than a hundred years later, graphs can be found everywhere, from science journals to kindergarten classrooms! Lines, Bars and Circles is a playful introduction to a little-known original thinker and the fascinating story of modern infographics.
