The Fly on the Ceiling: A Math Reader
By (Author) Julie Glass
Illustrated by Richard Walz
Random House USA Inc
Random House USA Children's Books
3rd July 1998
United States
Children
Non Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction
813.54
Paperback
48
Width 154mm, Height 229mm, Spine 4mm
103g
Recognized as the father of analytic goemetr y, Rene Descartes was a French mathematician and philosopher . Aimed at children, this funny tale, based on one of math''s greatest myths, is about the man who popularized the Cartes ian system of coordinates. '