Math in 100 Key Breakthroughs

About this book

Richard Elwes is a writer teacher and researcher in Mathematics visiting fellow at the University of Leeds and contributor to numerous popular science magazines. He is a committed and recognized popularizer of mathematics. Of Elwes Sonder Books 2011 Standouts said Dr. Elwes is brilliant at giving the reader the broad perspective with enough details to fascinate rather than confuse. Math in 100 Key Breakthroughs offers a series of short clear-eyed essays explaining the fundamentals of the mathematical concepts everyone should know. Professor Richard Elwes profiles the most important groundbreaking and astonishing discoveries which together have profoundly influenced our understanding of the universe. From the origins of countingtraced back to more than 35 000 years agoto such contemporary breakthroughs as Wiles Proof of Fermats Last Theorem and Cook & Woolframs Rule 110 this compulsively readable book tells the story of discovery invention and inspiration that have led to humankinds most important mathematical achievements.