Alex Bellos,The Surreal McCoy
From the bestselling author of ,Hereâ€™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 worldâ€™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 humankindâ€™s turbulent relationship with numbers, and reveals how they have shaped the world we live in.
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The Grapes of Math: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life