November 30, 2024
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Find out all about atoms, what they are and where they come from – and how these tiny particles combine to make up EVERYTHING in the universe (including you). Packed with intriguing facts, this is an entertaining and accessible introduction to key scientific ideas.
Find out all about atoms, what they are and where they come from – and how these tiny particles combine to make up EVERYTHING in the universe (including you). Packed with intriguing facts, this is an entertaining and accessible introduction to key scientific ideas.
Concrete poems aren’t meant to be read aloud; instead, they’re meant to be looked at and laughed at together. The arrangement of words and letters forms surprising shapes and patterns, sparking curiosity and creativity.
Long ago in India, there lived a raja who believed that he was wise and fair. But every year he kept nearly all of the people’s rice for himself. Then when famine came, the raja refused to share the rice, and the people went hungry.
Then a village girl named Rani devises a clever plan. She does a good deed for the raja, and in return the raja lets her choose her reward. Rani asks for just one grain of rice, doubled every day for thirty days. Through the surprising power of doubling, one grain of rice grows into more than one billion grains of rice.
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.’
‘Zero is very special. There is no other number quite like it in the universe.’
So says Sir Tzyphyr.
Sir Tzyphyr is no ordinary magician. He is the greatest Wizard of the universe for he knows mathemagic, the spell of numbers. This gives him powers greater than ordinary magic ever could. Join him as he takes the twins Megha and Mehul on a second exciting journey into the magical world of numbers. This time they find out all they can about that most special and mysterious of numbers, ZERO!
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