Mathematics in Minutes 200 Key Concepts Explained In An Instant – Free Download

Mathematics has been evolving for over four thousand years. We still measure angles using the 360-degree system introduced by the Babylonians. Geometry came of age with the ancient Greeks, who also understood irrational numbers. The Moorish civilization developed algebra and popularized the idea of zero as a number.

Mathematics has a rich history for good reason. It is both stunningly useful—the language of science, technology, architecture, and commerce—and profoundly satisfying as an intellectual pursuit. Not only does mathematics have a rich past, but it continues to evolve, both in the sophistication of approaches to established areas and in the discovery or invention of new areas of investigation. Recently computers have provided a new way to explore the unknown, and even if traditional mathematical proofs are the end product, numerical simulations can provide a source of new intuition that speeds up the process of framing conjectures.

Only a lunatic would pretend that all mathematics could be presented in 200 bite-sized chunks. What this book does attempt to do is to describe some of the achievements of mathematics, both ancient and modern, and explain why these are so exciting. In order to develop some of the ideas in more detail it seemed natural to focus on core mathematics. The many applications of these ideas are mentioned only in passing.

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