Alex's Adventures in Numberland
Dispatches from the Wonderful World of Mathematics
By Alex Bellos
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Algebra, geometry, logarithms, trigonometry, statistics - these are words that strikefear into many of us; yet Alex explains them with such humour, clarity and ...
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independent published on Sun, 24 Apr 2011
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Alex's Adventures in Numberland, By Alex Bellos
Gratifyingly for those of us who are not too hot on numbers, Alex Bellos begins this unexpectedly beguiling exploration with an Amazonian tribe called Munduruku who scarcely bother with them at all. Ask a father of six how many children he has and th ... (read full critics)
independent published on Fri, 1 Apr 2011
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- English Books
- Others 448 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0747597162
- ISBN-13: 9780747597162
- Pub date: Jan 01, 2010
- Also available as: eBook
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Alex's Adventures in Numberland, By Alex Bellos
This marvellous book explodes the myths that maths is boring and hard. Alex Bellos writes of probability and gambling, the magic of pi, Rubik's cubes, slide rules, Sudoku, algebra, abacuses, bell curves, the geometry of the 50p piece, squaring the ci ... (read full critics)