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Making up Numbers: A History of Invention in Mathematics offers a detailed but accessible account of a wide range of mathematical ideas. Starting with elementary concepts, it leads the reader towards aspects of current mathematical research. The book explains how conceptual hurdles in the development of numbers and number systems were overcome in the course of history, from Babylon to Classical Greece, from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, and so to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The narrative moves from the Pythagorean insistence on positive multiples to the gradual acceptance of negative numbers, irrationals and complex numbers as essential tools in quantitative analysis. Within this chronological framework, chapters are organised thematically, covering a variety of topics and contexts: writing and solving equations, geometric construction, coordinates and complex numbers, perceptions of ‘infinity’ and its permissible uses in mathematics, number systems, and evolving views of the role of axioms. Through this approach, the author demonstrates that changes in our understanding of numbers have often relied on the breaking of long-held conventions to make way for new inventions at once providing greater clarity and widening mathematical horizons. Viewed from this historical perspective, mathematical abstraction emerges as neither mysterious nor immutable, but as a contingent, developing human activity. Making up Numbers will be of great interest to undergraduate and A-level students of mathematics, as well as secondary school teachers of the subject. In virtue of its detailed treatment of mathematical ideas, it will be of value to anyone seeking to learn more about the development of the subject.

Mathematics Across Cultures: A History of Non-Western Mathematics consists of essays dealing with the mathematical knowledge and beliefs of cultures outside the United States and Europe. In addition to articles surveying Islamic, Chinese, Native American, Aboriginal Australian, Inca, Egyptian, and African mathematics, among others, the book includes essays on Rationality, Logic and Mathematics, and the transfer of knowledge from East to West. The essays address the connections between science and culture and relate the mathematical practices to the cultures which produced them. Each essay is well illustrated and contains an extensive bibliography. Because the geographic range is global, the book fills a gap in both the history of science and in cultural studies. It should find a place on the bookshelves of advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars, as well as in libraries serving those groups.

This kit contains 16 each of "Number Textbook 1", "Number Textbook 2", and "Shape, Data and Measures Workbook" and 8 copies of "Homework Book".

Teachers who use Abacus Evolve have praised its flexible assessment, planning support, creative teaching and sound mathematical progression. They tell us that this has helped them raise standards, reduce workload and increase confidence in maths.

Help your pupils practise key skills with these motivating pupil textbooks for Year 4. Three textbooks per year provide activities for terms 1, 2 and 3.

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An excavation report of two New Kingdom tombs at Saqqara (Egypt) dating to the reigns of Akhenaten and Tutankamun.

This is the 12th edition of the market-leading Business Finance, a highly regarded text that has now been around for 42 years. It takes a rigorous and authoritative coverage of major corporate finance topics, sitting at the highest level with regard to technical concepts. It is also the only wholly Australian textbook offered at this level rather than an adaptation of an international textbook. NEW FEATURES •A full Connect Plus package is available with this text, featuring the end-of-chapter problems PLUS new interactive questions! •Revision of Chapter 2 on Fisher’s Theorem, behavioural finance and increased discussion of capital budgeting. •Categorised end-of-chapter material into basic, intermediate and advanced levels in the form of Question, Problem, Extension Exercise, differentiates questions for students of different aptitudes. •End-of-chapter questions and problems are tagged for learning objectives, helping to reinforce key principles and the real-world applications of economic theory. KEY FEATURES •Each chapter is carefully structured around its learning objectives, with learning objectives highlighted throughout the text. •Finance in Action boxes with tables, figures and new data discuss recent and historical trends in economics. •Worked examples are integrated throughout the text, accompanied by explanations of the theories used. •Key terms are highlighted in the text with margin definitions where they first appear, and compiled into the glossary. • Self-test problems for students, with answers at the back of the book.