Wild hares and hummingbirds
Stephen Moss
This is a very personal celebration of why the natural world matters to all of us, wherever we live. The book is nature writing at its finest, expressed through the natural history of one very special place.
Read Time: ~2.9 hr
Pascal's arithmetical triangle
by A.W.F. Edwards (1987)
About this book
A history of Pascal's Arithmetical Triangle, tracing its roots in Pythagorean arithmetic, Hindu combinatorics and Arabic algebra, and giving an account of the progressive solution of combinatorial problems from the earliest recorded examples through the Renaissance and later mathematicians. The author shows how Pascal's work in establishing the peroperties of the numbers and their application in various fields let to Newton's discovery of the binomial theorem for fractional and negative indices and to Leibniz's discovery of calculus.
Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraModern Era
Protagonist / CorePascal's arithmetical triangle Lead Character
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