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The Great Mathematical Problems Professor Ian Stewart 9781846683374
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.26There are some mathematical problems whose significance goes beyond the ordinary - like Fermat's Last Theorem or Goldbach's Conjecture - they are the enigmas which define mathematics. The Great... -
Professor Stewart's Incredible Numbers Professor Ian Stewart 9781781254516
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.83Ian Stewart explores the astonishing properties of numbers from 1 to10 to zero and infinity, including one figure that, if you wrote it out, would span the universe. He looks at every kind of number... -
Professor Stewart's Casebook of Mathematical Mysteries Professor Ian Stewart 9781846683480
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70Like its wildly popular predecessors Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities and Hoard of Mathematical Treasures, Professor Stewart's brand-new book is a miscellany of over 150 mathematical curios and... -
Mathematics Of Life: Unlocking the Secrets of Existence Professor Ian Stewart 9781846682056
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70A new partnership of biologists and mathematicians is picking apart the hidden complexity of animals and plants to throw fresh light on the behaviour of entire organisms, how they interact and how... -
Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities Professor Ian Stewart 9781846683459
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70School maths is not the interesting part. The real fun is elsewhere. Like a magpie, Ian Stewart has collected the most enlightening, entertaining and vexing 'curiosities' of maths over the years..... -
Do Dice Play God?: The Mathematics of Uncertainty by Professor Ian Stewart
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.83Uncertainty is everywhere. It lurks in every consideration of the future - the weather, the economy, the sex of an unborn child - even quantities we think that we know such as populations or the... -
What's the Use?: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics by Professor Ian Stewart 9781781259429
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.02'Stewart is Britain's most brilliant and prolific populariser of maths' Alex Bellos 'The instructive equivalent of a Michelin-starred tasting menu' Tim Radford Many people think mathematics is... -
Significant Figures: Lives and Works of Trailblazing Mathematicians by Professor Ian Stewart
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.26Which mathematician elaborated a crucial concept the night before he died in a duel? Who funded his maths and medical career through gambling and chess? Who learned maths from her wallpaper? Ian... -
Reaching for the Extreme: How the Quest for the Biggest, Fewest and Weirdest Makes Maths Professor Ian Stewart 9781805221593
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €19.48FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF PROFESSOR STEWART'S CABINET OF MATHEMATICAL CURIOSITIES 'Britain's most brilliant and prolific populariser of maths' ALEX BELLOS What is the maximum land you can... -
Seventeen Equations that Changed the World Ian Stewart 9781846685323
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70From Newton's Law of Gravity to the Black-Scholes model used by bankers to predict the markets, equations, are everywhere -- and they are fundamental to everyday life.Seventeen Equations that... -
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Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities by Ian Stewart 9781846683459 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €2.34School maths is not the interesting part. The real fun is elsewhere. Like a magpie, Ian Stewart has collected the most enlightening, entertaining and vexing 'curiosities' of maths over the years..... -
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The Great Mathematical Problems by Ian Stewart 9781846683374 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €3.00There are some mathematical problems whose significance goes beyond the ordinary - like Fermat's Last Theorem or Goldbach's Conjecture - they are the enigmas which define mathematics. The Great... -
Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures by Ian Stewart
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €7.74Ian Stewart, author of the bestselling Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities, presents a new and magical mix of games, puzzles, paradoxes, brainteasers, and riddles. He mingles... -
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What We Cannot Know: Explorations at the Edge of Knowledge by Marcus du Sautoy 9780007576661 [USED COPY]
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €12.92Britain's most famous mathematician takes us to the edge of knowledge to show us what we cannot know. Is the universe infinite? Do we know what happened before the Big Bang? ... -
Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures by Ian Stewart 9780465017751
Booksplease Price: €19.87Opening another drawer in his Cabinet of Curiosities, renowned mathematics professor Ian Stewart presents a new medley of games, paradoxes, and riddles in Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical... -
Quantum Leaps: How Maths Drives Scientific Progress Hugh Barker 9781786497680
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46From the author of Million Dollar Maths comes a fascinating and engaging look at the mathematics that lies behind our modern world. How does Google know what you want to type? How did humans first... -
Million Dollar Maths: The Secret Maths of Becoming Rich (or Poor) by Hugh Barker 9781786493248
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98Million Dollar Maths is an invaluable guide to the straightforward and outlandish mathematical strategies that can make you rich. ____________How can you turn $1000 into $1 million? What is the best... -
The Science Of Discworld by Terry Pratchett
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.83The fantastic first book in the Sunday Times bestselling Science of Discworld seriesWhen a wizardly experiment goes adrift, the wizards of Unseen University find themselves with a pocket universe... -
Taming the Infinite: The Story of Mathematics Ian Stewart 9781847247681
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.67From ancient Babylon to the last great unsolved problems, Ian Stewart brings us his definitive history of mathematics. In his famous straightforward style, Professor Stewart explains each major... -
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Taming the Infinite: The Story of Mathematics by Ian Stewart 9781847247681 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €2.86From ancient Babylon to the last great unsolved problems, Ian Stewart brings us his definitive history of mathematics. In his famous straightforward style, Professor Stewart explains each major... -
Can Fish Count?: What Animals Reveal about our Uniquely Mathematical Mind Brian Butterworth 9781529411256
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.55'What I like best about this fascinating book is the detail. Brian Butterworth doesn't just tell us stories of animals with numerical abilities: he tells us about the underlying science. Elegantly... -
Lying Numbers: How Maths and Statistics Are Twisted and Abused by Hugh Barker
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50A readily understandable exploration of how figures are badly reported or deliberately misrepresented everywhere from political arguments and briefings to business presentations and shopping offers... -
Can Fish Count?: What Animals Reveal about our Uniquely Mathematical Mind Brian Butterworth 9781529411287
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.64'What I like best about this fascinating book is the detail. Brian Butterworth doesn't just tell us stories of animals with numerical abilities: he tells us about the underlying science. Elegantly... -
Infinity: A Very Short Introduction by Ian Stewart
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.20Infinity is an intriguing topic, with connections to religion, philosophy, metaphysics, logic, and physics as well as mathematics. Its history goes back to ancient times, with especially important... -
The Science Of Discworld II: The Globe by Terry Pratchett
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.93Acclaimed The Science of Discworld centred around an original Pratchett story about the wizards of Discworld. In it they accidentally witnessed the creation and evolution of our universe, a plot... -
The Science of Discworld IV: Judgement Day by Terry Pratchett
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.16The fourth book in the Science of Discworld series, and this time around dealing with THE REALLY BIG QUESTIONS, Terry Pratchett's brilliant new Discworld story Judgement Day is annotated with very... -
Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch by Terry Pratchett
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.16Roundworld is in trouble again, and this time it looks fatal. Having created it in the first place, the wizards of Unseen University feel vaguely responsible for its safety. They know the creatures... -
Sunfall by Jim Al-Khalili
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.70From renowned theoretical physicist, broadcaster and author Jim Al-Khalili, comes this thrilling debut novel drawing on cutting-edge science and set in a near-future full of dazzling technologies... -
Calculating the Cosmos: How Mathematics Unveils the Universe by Ian Stewart
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70Ian Stewart's up-to-the-minute guide to the cosmos moves from the formation of the Earth and its Moon to the planets and asteroids of the solar system and from there out into the galaxy and the... -
Infinite Powers: The Story of Calculus - The Language of the Universe by Steven Strogatz
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46Shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2019A magisterial history of calculus (and the people behind it) from one of the world's foremost mathematicians.This is the captivating story of... -
A Tale of Two Infinities: Gravitational Waves and the Quantum Origin of the Universe's Biggest Mysteries by Gianfranco Bertone 9780192898159
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €25.28'An incredible tour of our universe's greatest mysteries' Professor Dan Hooper This cutting-edge book investigates the extraordinary potential of multimessenger astronomy to revolutionise our...