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A film tie-in edition of the prize-winning biography of an extraordinary mathematical genius.At twenty-one, John Nash was a brilliant and highly eccentric mathematician at Princeton University when he invented game theory—the most influential theory of rational human behaviour of our time. At ... More

"How could you, a mathematician, believe that extraterrestrials were sending you messages?" the visitor from Harvard asked the West Virginian with the movie-star looks and Olympian manner."Because the ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way by mathematical ideas did," came the ... More

When Patricia met Charles, he was a handsome young man who came from a poor family with one goal in mind -- to become a millionaire and to out perform his wealthy brother who was a Yale graduate, and his sister, a Smith graduate, who married into a moneyed family. Charles was a high school dropout m... More

This easy-to-use and accessible book has been specifically written for teaching assistants. It is packed with practical activities, ideas and strategies to help you to enhance your pupils??? numeracy and mathematics skills and build on your own subject knowledge. This book: includes a cross-curricul... More