Alex Through the Looking-Glass - Alex Bellos

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 30000 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.

TITLE: Alex Through the Looking-Glass

AUTHOR: Alex Bellos

SKU: 9781408845721

PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

DATE PUBLISHED: 09/04/2015

PLACE PUBLISHED: United Kingdom

PAGES: 352

BINDING: Paperback / softback

LANGUAGE: English

DIMENSIONS: 129 mm x 198 mm

WEIGHT: 316 gr