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THINKING BETTER

Release date: 25 August 2021
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How do you remember more and forget less?How can you earn more and become more creative just by m... Read More

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How do you remember more and forget less?How can you earn more and become more creative just by moving house? And how do you pack a car boot most efficiently?This is your shortcut to the art of the shortcut.Mathematics is full of better ways of thinking, and with over 2,000 years of knowledge to draw on, Oxford mathematician Marcus du Sautoy interrogates his passion for shortcuts in this fresh and fascinating guide. After all, shortcuts have enabled so much of human progress, whether in constructing the first cities around the Euphrates 5,000 years ago, using calculus to determine the scale of the universe or in writing todays algorithms that help us find a new life partner. As well as looking at the most useful shortcuts in history such as measuring the circumference of the earth in 240 BC to diagrams that illustrate how modern GPS works Marcus also looks at how you can use shortcuts in investing or how to learn a musical instrument to memory techniques. He talks to, among many, the writer Robert MacFarlane, cellist Natalie Clein and the psychologist Suzie Orbach, asking whether shortcuts are always the best idea and, if so, when they use them.With engaging puzzles and conundrums throughout to illustrate the shortcuts ability to find solutions with speed, Thinking Better offers many clever strategies for daily complex problems.

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Title: THINKING BETTER
Author: Marcus du Sautoy
Publisher: FOURTH ESTATE
SKU: BK0453487
EAN: 9780008516444
Number Of Pages: 352
Language: English
Binding: Paperback
Release date: 25 August 2021

About Author

Marcus du Sautoy holds Oxford University's prestigious Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science, a post previously held by Richard Dawkins, and is also a professor of Mathematics. He has presented numerous programmes on television and radio, including the internationally acclaimed BBC series The Story of Maths and the comedy maths show The School of Hard Sums with Dara Ó Briain. He writes extensively for the Guardian, The Times and the Daily Telegraph and has written and performed a new play called X&Y which has been staged in London’s Science Museum and Glastonbury Festival. He received an OBE for services to science in the 2010 New Year’s Honours List.

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