Counting: Humans, History and the Infinite Lives of Numbers

What has counting meant to different cultures and different individuals? In this book, historian and mathematician Benjamin Wardhaugh will explore stories from all over the world and from every period of human history, from Ife numerologists to Antarctic scientists; from Egyptian kings to Chinese peasants. It will display the ways counting has been continually reinvented […]

Book of Wonders

Euclid’s Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. In a sweeping history, Benjamin Wardhaugh traces how an ancient Greek text on mathematics – often hailed as the world’s first textbook – shaped two thousand years of art, philosophy and literature, as well as science and maths. Thirteen volumes of mathematical definitions, propositions […]

Lest We Forget

THIS BESTSELLING PICTURE BOOK ABOUT A BOY AND HIS GRANDFATHER WILL HELP EVEN THE VERY YOUNG UNDERSTAND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ANZAC DAY. My granddad says there are two types of days: those you want to remember and those you want to forget … A young boy visits his granddad and thinks about the important days […]