The Handy Math Answer Book

Svarney, Thomas E.

ISBN 10: 0780809629 ISBN 13: 9780780809628

Publisher: Omnigraphics Inc, 2005

Synopsis

From modern-day challenges such as balancing a checkbook, following the stock market, buying a home, and figuring out credit card finance charges to appreciating historical developments like the use of algebra by Mesopotamian mathematicians, this engaging resource addresses more than 1,000 questions relating to mathematics. Providing a complete overview?beginning with the early history of Pythagoras, Archimedes, and how some of the first calendars were invented?this guide helps answer questions surrounding the basics and fundamentals of algebra, calculus, geometry, and trigonometry. Organized in 16 chapters that cluster similar topics in an easily accessible format, this reference provides clear and concise explanations to paradoxes, theories, fundamentals of geometry, and other branches of mathematics, plus the numbers we see daily in statistics, financial and market reports, weather forecasts, real estate evaluations, games, and measurements of all kinds.

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About the Author

Patricia Barnes-Svarney has been a nonfiction science and science fiction writer for more than 15 years. She has a master's degree in geography/geomorphology and has worked professionally as a geomorphologist and oceanographer. She has written or coauthored more than 300 articles for science magazines and journals. Thomas E. Svarney is a scientist, naturalist, and artist. They are the coauthors of numerous science books, including The Handy Geology Answer Book.

Edition details

• Publisher: Omnigraphics Inc
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0780809629
• ISBN 13: 9780780809628
• Binding: Library Binding
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 500
• Editor: Barnes-Svarney Patricia L.