Sunday 14 July 2013

History of maths

Have you ever think about world before teorem of Tales?
Can you imagine your calculation without "zero"?
Do you know that if you are under 21 you still can became a great mathematics?
How much do you know about Carl Friedrich Gauss, a man called a prince of mathematics?
How many digits of the number pi (symbol: π) can you recite without breath?
Have you heard about constant e, which "father" was Euler?

If you want read about it, I recommend you a Denis Guedj's book The Parrot's Theorem.
A Parisian bookseller (Mr. Ruche), receives a bequest from a long lost friend in the Amazon of a vast library of maths books, which propels him into a great exploration of the story of mathematics. He is reading about maths in chronological order and a reader can learn history of maths with him. At the same time you are invited to solve the murder mystery along with the main characters.