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Join mathematician Professor Hannah Fry and science creator Michael Stevens (Vsauce) as they dig into the weird scientific questions that often go unexplored. Welcome to The Rest Is Science, a show that sits in the fascinating space between what we think we know, and what we actually know. Why do we assume we understand things like time, randomness, or even gravity? Once you start questioning these familiar ideas, reality becomes astonishingly strange and completely fragile. Whether you're a lifelong science fan or just naturally curious, The Rest Is Science will change your perception of ...

**Build Strong Geometry Skills with 1,000 Questions!** Master Geometry Basics & Perimeter/Area is Book 7 in the Maths Questline Series, designed for learners ages 9–10 who want to strengthen their understanding of geometry, shapes, perimeter, and area. With 1,000 multiple-choice questions and...

Build Strong Maths Skills with 1,000 Questions! Master Fractions, Decimals & Percentages is Book 6 in the Maths Questline Series, designed for learners ages 9–10 who want to build confidence with essential fraction, decimal, and percentage skills. With 1,000 multiple-choice questions and clear...

Master Advanced Arithmetic and Operations with 1,000 Questions! Master Advanced Arithmetic & Operations is Book 5 in the Maths Questline Series, designed to help learners ages 9–10 develop their mathematical skills and confidence. Featuring 1,000 multiple-choice questions with detailed...

Build Strong Data and Probability Skills with 1,000 Questions! Master Data & Simple Probability is Book 4 in the Maths Questline Series, designed for learners ages 8–9 who want to build confidence with essential data-handling and probability skills. With 1,000 multiple-choice questions and...

Max Tegmark leads us on an astonishing journey through past, present and future, and through the physics, astronomy and mathematics that are the foundation of his work, most particularly his hypothesis that our physical reality is a mathematical structure and his theory of the ultimate...

Build Strong Shapes and Measurement Skills with 1,000 Questions! Master Shapes & Measurement is Book 3 in the Maths Questline Series, designed for learners ages 8–9 who want to build confidence with essential geometry and measurement skills. With 1,000 multiple-choice questions and clear...

SUNDAY TIMES NO 1 FICTION BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE HUNDRED-YEAR-OLD MAN WHO CLIMBED OUT OF THE WINDOW AND DISAPPEARED Just because the world ignores you, doesn’t mean you can’t save it . . . Nombeko Mayeki was never meant to be a hero. Born in a Soweto shack, she seemed destined for...

Why do mobile phones work when you're on a train? What happens when you pull a pop song apart into pure sine waves and play it back on a piano? And what did mathematicians have to do with the great pig stampede of 2012? The answer to each of these questions can be found in the triangle. Join Matt Parker, stand-up comedian and author of the first ever maths book to be a No. 1 bestseller, as he uncovers the secrets of trigonometry and shares extraordinary stories about the mathematicians, philosophers and engineers who dared to take triangles seriously.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Humble Pi written and read by Matt Parker. What makes a bridge wobble when it's not meant to? Billions of dollars mysteriously vanish into thin air? A building rock when its resonant frequency matches a gym class leaping to Snap's 1990 hit I've Got The...

Make Fractions and Decimals Easier to Understand! Master Early Fractions & Decimals is Book 2 in the Maths Questline Series, designed for learners ages 8–9 who are ready to strengthen their understanding of fractions and decimals. Featuring 1,000 multiple-choice questions with clear...

Manifest Now provides a step-by-step guide with tools, techniques, and proven strategies to raise your frequency and create the reality you want. This audiobook is designed to guide you through the mental, physical, and spiritual aspects of manifesting and creating all that your heart desires. You'll learn how to start removing mental and emotional blocks so you can rediscover that manifesting is your natural birthright. You'll feel more confident, reconnected, and powerful as you listen.

Find calm, safety, and gentle connection with your body right from home. If you’ve been searching for a simple, approachable way to reconnect with your body, this book offers a supportive starting point. At Home Somatic Therapy Exercises for Beginners introduces gentle, mindful movement practices designed to help you build awareness, relaxation, and a greater sense of internal balance without equipment, complex routines, or overwhelm.

‘Fascinating … so enlightening that suddenly maths doesn’t seem so fearsome as it once did’ SIMON WINCHESTER From Aristotle to Ada Lovelace: a brief history of the mathematical ideas that have forever changed the world and the everyday people and pioneers behind them. The story of our...

Infinite Powers recounts how calculus tantalized and thrilled its inventors, starting with its first glimmers in ancient Greece and bringing us right up to the discovery of gravitational waves. Strogatz reveals how this form of math rose to the challenges of each age: how to determine the area of a circle with only sand and a stick; how to explain why Mars goes "backwards" sometimes; how to turn the tide in the fight against AIDS.    

Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2022 Football has always measured success by what you win, but only in the last twenty years have clubs started to think about how you win. Data has now suffused almost every aspect of how football is played, coached, scouted and...

Emotions are powerful. In newspaper headlines and on social media, they have become the primary way of understanding the world. But strong feelings make it more difficult to see the reality behind the rhetoric. In The Art of Logic, Eugenia Cheng shows how mathematical logic can help us see things more clearly - and know when politicians and companies are trying to mislead us.

Think of a number between one and 10. No, hang on, let's make this interesting. Between zero and infinity. Even if you stick to the whole numbers, there are a lot to choose from - an infinite number in fact. Throw in decimal fractions, and infinity suddenly gets an awful lot bigger (is that even possible?). And then there are the negative numbers, the imaginary numbers, the irrational numbers like pi which never end. It literally never ends.

Aubrey Clayton traces the history of how statistics went astray, beginning with the groundbreaking work of the 17th-century mathematician Jacob Bernoulli and winding through gambling, astronomy, and genetics. Clayton recounts the feuds among rival schools of statistics, exploring the surprisingly human problems that gave rise to the discipline and the all-too-human shortcomings that derailed it.

These simple math secrets and tricks will forever change how you look at the world of numbers. Secrets of Mental Math will have you thinking like a math genius in no time. Get ready to amaze your friends—and yourself—with incredible calculations you never thought you could master, as...