{"product_id":"9781848584167","title":"The Great Mathematicians: [Fully Illustrated]","description":"Mathematics pervades our daily lives. It is intimately involved whenever one starts a car, switches on the television, flies on a plane, forecasts the weather, books a holiday on the internet, programmes a computer, navigates heavy traffic, analyses statistical data, or seeks a cure for a disease. Our credit cards and the nation's defence secrets are kept secure by encryption methods based on prime numbers. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book presents mathematics with a human face, celebrating the achievements of the great mathematicians in their historical context. Here you will meet time-measurers (the Mayans, Huygens), astronomers (Ptolemy, Halley), logicians (Aristotle, Russell), calculators (Napier, Babbage), geometers (Archimedes, Bolyai) and arithmeticians (Pythagoras, al-Khwarizmi), as well as such well-known figures as Geoffrey Chaucer, Christopher Wren, Napoleon, Florence Nightingale, and many more.","brand":"Arcturus Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47137042890992,"sku":"9781848584167","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781848584167_p0.jpg?v=1763753740","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781848584167","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}