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Alex Through the Looking-Glass: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life by Alex Bellos (Hardcover, 2014)

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From triangles, rotations and power laws, to fractals, cones and curves, bestselling author Alex Bellos takes you on a journey of mathematical discovery with his signature wit, engaging stories and limitless enthusiasm. As he narrates a series of eye-opening encounters with lively personalities all over the world, Alex demonstrates how numbers have come to be our friends, are fascinating and extremely accessible, and how they have changed our world. He turns even the dreaded calculus into an easy-to-grasp mathematical exposition, and sifts through over 30,000 survey submissions to reveal the world's favourite number. In Germany, he meets the engineer who designed the first roller-coaster loop, whilst in India he joins the world's highly numerate community at the International Congress of Mathematicians. He explores the wonders behind the Game of Life program, and explains mathematical logic, growth and negative numbers. Stateside, he hangs out with a private detective in Oregon and meets the mathematician who looks for universes from his garage in Illinois. Read this captivating book, and you won't realise that you're learning about complex concepts. Alex will get you hooked on maths as he delves deep into humankind's turbulent relationship with numbers, and proves just how much fun we can have with them.

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-13
9781408817773
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Author
Alex Bellos
Publication Name
Alex Through the Looking-Glass: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Science
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
352 Pages

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228mm
Item Width
153mm
Item Weight
680g

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Alex Bellos
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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by dal-321028 Feb, 2019
Maths at its most entertaining
Lewis Carroll was of course a mathematician ... although he is most well known for his literature. What better way to title a book that takes one through the twists and turns of what mathematics has to offer in its description of our real and imagined universes ... very entertaining.
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