Alex Through the Looking Glass
How Life Reflects Numbers, and Numbers Reflect Life
(Sprache: Englisch)
The Sunday Times bestseller by the author of Alex's Adventures in Numberland - a dazzling new book that turns even the most complex maths into a brilliantly entertaining narrative
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The Sunday Times bestseller by the author of Alex's Adventures in Numberland - a dazzling new book that turns even the most complex maths into a brilliantly entertaining narrative
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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.
Autoren-Porträt von Alex Bellos
Bellos, AlexAlex Bellos writes about maths and football. He has a degree in Mathematics and Philosophy from Oxford, and is a former South America correspondent for the Guardian. His books include the bestselling Alex's Adventures in Numberland and its sequel Alex Through the Looking Glass, Visions of Numberland, Can You Solve My Problems? and So You Think You've Got Problems? as well as the Football School series of children's books, which he co-authors. He has been the puzzle columnist for the Guardian since 2015. Alex lives in London with his wife and two sons.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Alex Bellos
- 2015, 352 Seiten, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade
- ISBN-10: 1408845725
- ISBN-13: 9781408845721
Sprache:
Englisch
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