Crash Course: Math

What’s the point of imaginary numbers? Why can predicting the weather lead to chaos? What’s the math behind a padlock in my browser’s window? And why do Fibonacci numbers breed like rabbits? Mathematics: A Crash Course answers all these questions and many more in a beautifully illustrated introduction to math. The essential ideas and theories are covered, from the earliest tallies from more than 40,000 years ago, through the development of algebra and geometry in the classical era, and to h...