The man who calculated

Name: The man who calculated
Brand: Totvsrj-record-dc
SKU: 9786555875911
Price: 58.41 BRL
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Autor: Malba Tahan

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The book on Mathematics that has taught and enchanted generations, with a new cover and a foreword by Mamede Jarouche.

In the celebrated "The Man Who Calculated ," Malba Tahan (pseudonym of Professor Júlio César de Mello e Souza) recounts the incredible adventures of a brilliant Persian calculator, Beremiz Samir, whose fantastic solutions to seemingly insoluble problems and mathematical feats became legendary in ancient Arabia, enchanting kings, poets, sheiks, and scholars. This edition also features a foreword by University of São Paulo professor Mamede Jarouche.

Using mathematics in a lighthearted and captivating way, The Man Who Counted has been consumed with rare avidity for generations. The light and entertaining mathematics presented in this work is undoubtedly less painful than that taught in schools. Malba Tahan managed to perform almost a miracle, a magic trick: uniting science and fiction. His talent and prodigious imagination are capable of creating characters and situations with great popular appeal, which explains his immense success.

The Man Who Counted is an opportunity for lovers of numbers and mathematical games to delight in this book's many playful chapters. Beremiz Samir, a traveler with an intuitive gift for mathematics who wields numbers with the ease of an illusionist, solves seemingly insoluble problems with impressive simplicity. Figures and tables make this masterpiece of children's literature even easier to read.