数字之年：365 个惊人的数学事实 A Year in Numbers : 365 Astonishing Maths Facts

基本信息

Format:Hardback 352 pages, Black-and-white line illustrations integrated throughout

Publisher:Atlantic Books

Imprint:Atlantic Books

Edition:Main

ISBN:9781838958916

Published:2 Nov 2023

Weight:390g

Dimensions:137 x 205 x 32 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

你可知道：

-只有约 100 人的寿命超过 100 万小时（即约 114 年）

- 大约 7% 曾经生活过的人目前还活着

-“圣诞节的 12 天”这歌，当完整唱完时，会收到 364 份礼物 - 每天一份......除了圣诞节

本书分为 12 个章节，大致对应于一年中的几个月 - 从“回到学校”算术和乘法表到素数，一直到 12 天的克里斯数学，这本书收集了 365 个引人入胜的内容 数字“金块”，并附有对支撑它们的数学的清晰、简短的解释。

Did you know:

-Only around 100 people have ever lived beyond a million hours (that's about 114 years)

-Around 7% of everyone who has ever lived is currently alive

-The '12 days of Christmas' song, when sung in full, results in 364 gifts being given - one for every day... except Christmas

Broken down into 12 chapters that correspond roughly to months of the year - from going 'back to school' with arithmetic and times tables through prime numbers and all the way to the 12 Days of Chris-maths, this book features a collection of 365 fascinating numerical 'nuggets', accompanied by clear, bite-size explanations of the mathematics that underpin them.

作者简介

凯尔·D·埃文斯 (Kyle D Evans) 是一位屡获殊荣的数学传播者和艺人。 他曾在从爱丁堡边缘艺术节到伦敦科学博物馆以及之间或多或少的任何地方演出。 他被认为是初个也是仅一个将黎曼猜想歌曲改编成当地广播歌曲的人。

Kyle D Evans is an award-winning maths communicator and entertainer. He has performed at venues from Edinburgh Fringe to London Science Museum and more or less everywhere between. He is thought to be the first and only person to have had a song about the Riemann hypothesis tuned into a local radio jingle.