This wide-ranging book takes in probability, fractals, astronomy, Babbage, Lovelace and a host of other areas and people.
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Review: The Great Formal Machinery Works: Theories of Deduction and Computation at the Origins of the Digital Age
If you’re of a mathematical bent this could be just the book to delve into.
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I submitted my review of this book to Teach Secondary magazine, an educational magazine in the UK. The first review is what the magazine published. The second one is what I actually wrote! In substantive terms there is little difference between the two, but you may find it interesting to see what the editor altered.
Read MoreReview: Blueprints: How mathematics shapes creativity
What place might Blueprints merit on a teacher’s bookshelves?
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DALL·E 2023-04-20 12.58.36 - A girl using a calculator in the style of Roy Litchtenstein
This doesn't add up: the Prime Minister's fretting about numeracy skills and people's attitudes towards them
Forgive me while I go off the subject of computing etc, but I feel I have to comment on the British Prime Minister’s recent headline-making pronouncement that kids need to be taught maths until they are 18 years old, and that they should ashamed of not being numerate.
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