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Alex's Adventures in Numberland - Alex Bellos AZW3 EPUB MOBI
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Alex's Adventures in Numberland: Dispatches from the Wonderful World of Mathematics — Alex Bellos. Formats: AZW3, EPUB, MOBI. Published 2010. This is the UK version —the US version is named [i]Here's Looking at Euclid[i].
 
isbn:9781408809594
Non-fiction. Tags: Mathematics, Science. 

In this richly entertaining and accessible book, Alex Bellos explodes the myth that math is best left to the geeks. Covering subjects from adding to algebra, from set theory to statistics, and from logarithms to logical paradoxes, he explains how mathematical ideas underpin just about everything in our lives.

Alex explains the surprising geometry of the 50p piece, and the strategy of how best to gamble it in a casino. He shines a light on the mathematical patterns in nature, and on the peculiar predictability of random behavior. He eats a potato crisp whose revolutionary shape was unpalatable to the ancient Greeks, and he shows the deep connections between math, religion and philosophy. 

Alex weaves a journey from primary school to university level math, from ancient history to the computing frontline, and from St Louis, Missouri, to Braintree, Essex. He meets the world's fastest mental calculators in Germany, consults a numerologist in the US desert, meets a startlingly numerate chimpanzee in Japan, and seeks advice from a venerable Hindu sage in India. 

An unlikely but exhilarating cocktail of history, reportage and mathematical proofs, Alex's dispatches from 'Numberland' show the world of math to be a much friendlier and more colorful place than you might have imagined

Alex's Adventures in Numberland - Alex Bellos.azw34.22 MiB
Alex's Adventures in Numberland - Alex Bellos.epub3.8 MiB
Alex's Adventures in Numberland - Alex Bellos.mobi4.1 MiB
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