Henry Carter Hull

Workshop math problems guidebook filled with practical applications for construction, workshop, and the home.

Discusses how mathematics can be used to understand nature's patterns as clues to the deep regularities that govern the way the world works.

Presents a discussion of innumeracy, the inability to deal comfortably with the fundamental notions of number and chance, and looks at the consequences of mathematical illiteracy as seen in stock scams, diet and medical claims, sports records, lotteries, and other scenarios.

Explores the history of mathematics and paints sketches of the most famous mathematicians through the centuries.

Attempts to determine whether or not humans are endowed with a number instinct, offering a new theory of language development that describes how mathematical thought evolved in two stages and how its main purpose was not education.

Introduces an intriguing selection of proofs, disputes and unsolved mysteries ranging from the age of Greek geometry to the frontier of infinite series.

Describes the historical developments of Fermat's last theorem from the ancient Egyptians in 3000 BC to 1995 and the proving of the theorem by mathematician Andrew Wiles.