Quantum Leaps: How Maths Drives Scientific Progress (Hardback)
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Quantum Leaps: How Maths Drives Scientific Progress (Hardback)

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Hardback 320 Pages
Published: 04/07/2024
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From 3-D printing to machine learning, Quantum Leaps is an eye-opening and extremely readable examination of the mathematics behind modern technology from the author of Lying Numbers.

How does Google know what you want to type? How did humans first reach the moon? Could we ever have a supercomputer the size of a pinhead?

In this thrilling numerical journey, Hugh Barker explores how mathematics has helped to build the technology of today, and the fascinating ways it is shaping the future. From green energy to 3-D printing and from quantum cryptography to machine learning, Quantum Leaps reveals the hidden mathematics in modern technology.

Beautifully written and full of ingenious examples, this book will make you realise how the modern world would be impossible without our formidable mathematical armoury.

Publisher: Atlantic Books
ISBN: 9781786497666
Number of pages: 320
Weight: 433 g
Dimensions: 224 x 142 x 28 mm
Edition: Main


MEDIA REVIEWS

Great fun. A clear, original and highly readable account of the curious relationship between mathematics and money. - Professor Ian Stewart on Million Dollar Maths

Hugh Barker makes deep ideas fun and profitable. - William Poundstone on Million Dollar Maths

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