MURDEROUS MATHS

'''Murderous Maths''' is a series of British educational books by author Kjartan Poskitt. The books teach maths, spanning from the simple (such as 1 + 1 = 2) to the complex (such as the quadratic formula). The books are written in a similar style to the Horrible Histories, Horrible Science and Horrible Geography in the informal manor the books are written in, involving evil geniuses, gangsters, love stories and smelly burgers.

Contents

Titles

Recurring characters

External links

Titles

The following are the books that are currently released in the series. These first two books do not cover any particular topics; rather, they were originally proposed to stand alone as an interesting read. The first two books were originally part of The Knowledge until a complete series was proposed.

★ ''Murderous Maths'', ISBN 0-439-01156-6


★ ''More Murderous Maths'', ISBN 0-439-01153-1

★ ''The Essential Arithmetricks: How to + - × ÷'', ISBN 0-439-01157-4

★ ''The Mean & Vulgar Bits: Fractions and Averages'', ISBN 0-439-01270-8

★ ''Desperate Measures: Length, Area and Volume'', ISBN 0-439-01370-4

★ ''Do You Feel Lucky?: The Secrets of Probability'', ISBN 0-439-99607-4

★ ''Vicious Circles and Other Savage Shapes'', ISBN 0-439-99747-X

★ ''Numbers: The Key To The Universe'', ISBN 0-439-98116-6

★ ''The Phantom X: Algebra'', ISBN 0-439-97729-0

★ ''The Fiendish Angletron: Trigonometry'', ISBN 0-439-96859-3

★ ''The Perfect Sausage and other Fundamental Formulas'', ISBN 0-439-95901-2

★ ''Codes: How to Make Them and Break Them'', ISBN 0-439-94328-4
Three related puzzle books have been published as well:

★ ''Professor Fiendish's Book of Diabolical Brain-benders'', ISBN 0-439-98226-XX

★ ''Professor Fiendish's Book of Brain-benders''

★ ''Sudoku: 100 Fun Number Puzzles'', ISBN 0-439-84570-X

★ ''Kakuro and Other Fiendish Number Puzzles'', ISBN 0-439-95164-X

Recurring characters

There are a number of recurring characters in the MM books. These include:

★ Captain Cancel and his Valiant Vector Warriors

★ Thag the Mathemagician

★ Urgum the Axeman, Grizelda the Grisly and other barbarians

★ Professor Fiendish and his pet pig, Truffles

★ The Fogsworth family, including the Duchess, the Colonel, Auntie Crystal, Rodney Bounder, Primrose Poppet, Binky Smallbrains, Lord Binkiebott Marmalade Fogsworth and Croak the Butler

★ Pongo McWhiffy, Hamburger seller, and Veronica Gumfloss

★ Riverboat Lil and Brett Shuffler

★ Sheerluck Homes (parody of Sherlock Holmes)

★ The Boccellis, the Gabriannis and Dolly Snowlips

★ The Evil Gollarks (from the planet Zog)

★ The Great Rhun of Jepatti, and his Ghinji

★ Kumar in his curry restaurant, The Ravenous Rajah

★ The Pure Mathematicians (Janet, Kimpton and Winch ''[the identity of the final pure Mathematician is unknown]''. Apparently named after a real-world teacher and a pair of real-world pure mathematicians, respectively.)

External links

★ The official Murderous Maths website