The Grapes of Math: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life

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Автор: Alex Bellos

Название: The Grapes of Math: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life

Издательство: Simon & Schuster

Год: 2014

Формат: epub/pdf

Размер: 38.8 Mb

Язык: Английский

From the bestselling author of Here’s Looking at Euclid, a dazzling new book that turns even the most complex math into a brilliantly entertaining narrative.

From triangles, rotations and power laws, to cones, curves and the dreaded calculus, Alex takes you on a journey of mathematical discovery with his signature wit and limitless enthusiasm. He sifts through over 30,000 survey submissions to uncover the world’s favourite number, and meets a mathematician who looks for universes in his garage. He attends the World Mathematical Congress in India, and visits the engineer who designed the first roller-coaster loop.

Get hooked on math as Alex delves deep into humankind’s turbulent relationship with numbers, and reveals how they have shaped the world we live in.