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Alex Through the Looking-Glass: How Life Reflects Numbers, and Numbers Reflect Life
Alex Bellos
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Description for Alex Through the Looking-Glass: How Life Reflects Numbers, and Numbers Reflect Life
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: PDZM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 25. Weight in Grams: 320.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408845721
SKU
V9781408845721
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50
About Alex Bellos
Alex Bellos is the bestselling author of Alex’s Adventures in Numberland, which was shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize. He is the Guardian’s maths-blogger, and has worked for the paper in London and Rio de Janeiro as its unusually numerate foreign correspondent. He is a curator-in-residence at the Science Museum and has a degree in Mathematics and Philosophy from ... Read more
Reviews for Alex Through the Looking-Glass: How Life Reflects Numbers, and Numbers Reflect Life
See, numbers don't have to be scary
Evan Davis
Another sparkling romp through the world of numbers, with the inimitable Alex Bellos as your friendly, informed, and crystal-clear guide. A brilliant successor to Alex in Numberland
Ian Stewart
To read Alex Through the Looking-Glass is to have one’s mind quietly but continually blown with the knowledge ... Read more
Evan Davis
Another sparkling romp through the world of numbers, with the inimitable Alex Bellos as your friendly, informed, and crystal-clear guide. A brilliant successor to Alex in Numberland
Ian Stewart
To read Alex Through the Looking-Glass is to have one’s mind quietly but continually blown with the knowledge ... Read more