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High Tech Maths: How Maths Shaped the Present and Will Build the Future
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High Tech Maths: How Maths Shaped the Present and Will Build the Future

Hugh Barker
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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, High Tech Maths reveals the hidden mathematics in modern technology.

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

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Country
United Kingdom
Date
4 August 2022
Pages
240
ISBN
9781786497666

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, High Tech Maths reveals the hidden mathematics in modern technology.

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

Read More
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Country
United Kingdom
Date
4 August 2022
Pages
240
ISBN
9781786497666

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