A handy essential reference book jam-packed with maths and science facts and figures. It provides a lively and succinct overview of these subjects while also illuminating some of the more interesting thoughts and discoveries of recent years. As expected from a book in the Whitaker's Almanack range, it contains a wealth of reliable interesting information on numbers, algebra and geometry, physics and chemistry, computer science and logic and even chaos theory! If you have ever wondered how digital pictures work or what is the difference between nuclear fission and nuclear fusion, this is the book for you.