A Year in Numbers: 365 Astonishing Math

Did you know:
-Only around 100 people have ever lived beyond a million hours (that's about 114 years)
-Around 7% of everyone who has ever lived is currently alive
-The '12 days of Christmas' song, when sung in full, results in 364 gifts being given - one for
every day... except Christmas


Broken down into 12 chapters that correspond roughly to months of the year - from going 'back toschool' with arithmetic and times tables through prime numbers and all the way to the 12 Days ofChris-maths, this book features a collection of 365 fascinating numerical 'nuggets',accompanied by clear, bite-size explanations of the mathematics that underpin them.

Hardback  (Text (eye-readable))  352pp  h198mm  x  w129mm  x s25mm  379g  Black-and-white line illustrations integrated throughout 

ISBN13: 9781838958916