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The grapes of math : how life reflects numbers and numbers reflect life Cover Image Book Book

The grapes of math : how life reflects numbers and numbers reflect life

Bellos, Alex 1969- (author.).

Summary: "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"--

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  • ISBN: 9781451640090 (hbk.)
  • ISBN: 1451640099 (hbk.)
  • ISBN: 9781451640113 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 1451640110 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9781451640120 (ebk.)
  • Physical Description: print
    xiii, 337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2014.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references pages 304-322) and index.

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