A Quick History of Maths:From Counting Cavemen to Big Data (Quick Histories) by Clive Gifford

A Quick History of Maths:From Counting Cavemen to Big Data (Quick Histories)

Clive Gifford with Michael Young (Illustrator)

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funny informative lighthearted medium-paced
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Maths + history + jokes - boring bits = A Quick History of Maths. This book begins around 43,000 years ago with a notched baboon leg, the Lebombo bone (the very first mathematical object in the world) and rushes us past Hindu numerals and the inve...

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