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Thinking in Numbers: How Maths Illuminates Our Lives
Daniel Tammet
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Description for Thinking in Numbers: How Maths Illuminates Our Lives
Paperback. Mathematical savant and bestselling author of BORN ON A BLUE DAY, this is Tammet's engaging and personal exploration of what numbers can teach us about our lives and minds. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: PDZM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 15. Weight in Grams: 168.
This is the book that Daniel Tammet, bestselling author and mathematical savant, was born to write. In Tammet's world, numbers are beautiful and mathematics illuminates our lives and minds. Using anecdotes and everyday examples, Tammet allows us to share his unique insights and delight in the way numbers, fractions and equations underpin all our lives.
Inspired by the complexity of snowflakes, Anne Boleyn's sixth finger or his mother's unpredictable behaviour, Tammet explores questions such as why time seems to speed up as we age, whether there is such a thing as an average person and how we can make ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781444737448
SKU
V9781444737448
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99-10
About Daniel Tammet
Daniel Tammet is the critically acclaimed author of the worldwide bestselling memoir, BORN ON A BLUE DAY, and the international bestseller EMBRACING THE WIDE SKY. Tammet's exceptional abilities in mathematics and linguistics are combined with a unique capacity to communicate what it is like to be a savant. His idiosyncratic world view gives us new perspectives on the universal questions ... Read more
Reviews for Thinking in Numbers: How Maths Illuminates Our Lives
Thinking in Numbers is unprecedented: a pitch-perfect duet between mathematics and literature ... Mathematics, Tammet says, is illimitable. It is a language through which the human imagination expresses itself. Presumably this means mathematics has, or deserves, a literature. In Tammet, it already has a laureate.
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