Bui's Maths Book Vol. 2

About the Book

Bui’s Maths Book is in two volumes. Volume 1 contains 15 chapters and volume 2 contains 13 chapters. Chapter 1 introduces the number systems invented by the Babylonians, the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Chinese, the Etruscans, the Maya and the Hindus and Chapter 2 shows how Euclid’s axioms quickly build up into a theory of plane geometry. Chapters 3 and 4 concern Pythagoras’s theorem and his ideas on the musical scale and a number of results based upon the Pythagoras diagram. Chapters 5 to 8 show how the binary and hexadecimal number systems with the algebra of George Boole can be applied the design of computer logic circuits. Chapter 9 illustrates a mathematical approach to problem solving by discussing how to find the length of a roll of paper, how to stop a table from wobbling, how to make a snooker ball return to its starting position and how to design a football. Chapter 10 concerns topology and Chapter 11 deals with Descartes coordinate geometry. Chapters 12 and 13 deal with matrices, transformations and the theory of groups. Chapter 14 uses mathematical induction to sum series and prove the binomial theorem and Chapter 15 discusses probability. Volume 2 continues the story with chapters on sequences and series, Fibonacci, trigonometry, areas and volumes, Ceva, Menelaus and Morley, circles, special relativity, complex numbers, calculus and conics. There are many solved examples and exercises, all with answers. It should appeal both to the general reader and to the mathematics specialist.

About the Author

RHS White was educated at High Wycombe Royal Grammar School and won a scholarship to study mathematics at Downing College, Cambridge in 1959. After graduating he left England to teach mathematics in Ghana in West Africa and he was Head of Mathematics at Ghana Secondary Technical School in Takoradi from 1970 to 1975. In 1977 he and his family went to Malaysia where he headed the mathematics department at the Science Secondary School in Malacca. On returning to England he taught mathematics and computing at Ilford County High School in East London till 1987 and in 1988 took up a post teaching computer science at North East Surrey College of Technology. He took a masters degree in computer science from Birkbeck College, University of London in 1991 and took an M Sc degree in neural networks from Kings College, University of London in 1995. After a brief spell teaching computing at Imperial College, University of London, Bob White ended his career teaching mathematics and electronics at Croydon College, South London. He is proud of his two children Carol and Joe and lives with his wife Phillipa in Carshalton Beeches, Surrey.