Adventures in Numberland: a story of numbers in life and in business
暫譯: 數字國的冒險:生活與商業中的數字故事

Georgiou, Paul, Lang, Doreen

  • 出版商: Panarc International Ltd
  • 出版日期: 2016-11-07
  • 售價: $700
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$665
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 184
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 0995463751
  • ISBN-13: 9780995463752
  • 相關分類: 機率統計學 Probability-and-statistics
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商品描述

Adventures in Numberland is a fairy story about numbers in life and in business. The target audience is adult but will work for older children as an introduction to business and the importance of numeracy

The hero is Piff, the wood-cutters daughter, a beautiful, strong-minded young girl who is thrown out of her home by her fat and lazy step-mother. Alone in the forest, Piff meets the fairy, Numberlina, who decides to help Piff by showing her how useful numbers are and how powerful they can be. In return Numberlina wants a share of the profits and help in dealing with the Anathemath, an evil and confusing spirit, shrouded in a noxious green cloud.

Piff develops the wood-cutting business successfully, moving into furniture manufacturing and finally ship building. In the process, she leans how useful all the numbers (including pi, phi and e) can be. She attracts the unwelcome attention of Prince Baltigral who owns almost everything in Numberland. Baltigral is a greedy prince who has enlisted the help of the Anathemath, to mislead, suppress and exploit the population of Numberland.

In the course of her commercial career, Piff learns that mathematics has many practical uses - e.g. for making perfect right angles in the design of furniture, for measuring distances, for designing buildings and for calculating interest.

In the end, there is a final cataclysmic political and numerical struggle between Piff supported by Numberlina on one side and Prince Baltigral aided by the Anathemath on the other.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

《數字國的冒險》是一個關於生活和商業中數字的童話故事。目標讀者是成年人,但對於年長的孩子來說,也可以作為商業和數字素養的重要性介紹。

故事的主角是皮夫(Piff),一位木匠的女兒,她是一位美麗且意志堅定的年輕女孩,因為她的肥胖懶惰的繼母而被逐出家門。在森林中,皮夫遇到了仙女數字莉娜(Numberlina),她決定幫助皮夫,向她展示數字的實用性和強大之處。作為回報,數字莉娜希望能分得利潤並協助對抗阿納瑟瑪斯(Anathemath),這是一個邪惡且令人困惑的靈魂,籠罩在有毒的綠色雲霧中。

皮夫成功地發展了木材業務,進而進入家具製造,最終進軍造船業。在這個過程中,她學會了所有數字(包括 π、φ 和 e)的實用性。她吸引了擁有幾乎所有數字國財產的巴爾提格拉爾王子(Prince Baltigral)的不受歡迎的注意。巴爾提格拉爾是一位貪婪的王子,他利用阿納瑟瑪斯的幫助來誤導、壓制和剝削數字國的居民。

在她的商業生涯中,皮夫了解到數學有許多實際用途,例如在家具設計中製作完美的直角、測量距離、設計建築以及計算利息。

最後,皮夫在數字莉娜的支持下,與得到阿納瑟瑪斯幫助的巴爾提格拉爾王子展開了一場最終的政治和數字的災難性鬥爭。

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