Quantum leaps
: how maths is shaping the future
Barker, Hugh
creator
author
text
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London
Atlantic Books
2025
monographic
eng
320 pages ; 20 cm.
From the author of Million Dollar Maths comes a fascinating and engaging look at the mathematics that lies behind our modern world.
How does Google know what you want to type?
How did humans first reach the moon?
Could we ever have a supercomputer the size of a pinhead?
In this thrilling numerical journey, Hugh Barker explores how mathematics has helped to build the technology of today, and the fascinating ways it is shaping the future. From green energy to 3-D printing and from quantum cryptography to machine learning, Quantum Leaps reveals the hidden mathematics in modern technology.
Beautifully written and full of ingenious examples, this book will make you realise how the modern world would be impossible without our formidable mathematical armoury.
/ Hugh Barker.
Discoveries in science
Science
Mathematics
CB455 .B37 2024
9781786497680
UKMGB
250114
20251003093723.0
991027296479007026
eng