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.’
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 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!
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