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

Bellos, Alex

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1451640099 ISBN 13: 9781451640090

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2014

Synopsis

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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"Another sparkling romp through the world of numbers, with the inimitable Alex Bellos as your friendly, informed, and crystal-clear guide. A brilliant successor to Here's Looking at Euclid."--Ian Stewart, Professor of Mathematics, University of Warwick, and author of Visions of Infinity

"Love the book! Fresh, fascinating and endlessly charming. A splendiferous book altogether."--Tim Harford, Financial Times, author of The Undercover Economist Strikes Back

"See, numbers don't have to be scary!"--Evan Davis

"Alex Bellos' "The Grapes of Math" is a delicious grab bag of mathematical miscellany that includes Benford's law, fractals, exponentials and imaginary numbers, the Game of Life, among many other goodies, all presented in a most entertaining style. Both fun and instructive."--John Allen Paulos is the author of several books including Innumeracy and A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper

"Alex Bellos "The Grapes of Math" is a delicious grab bag of mathematical miscellany that includes Benford s law, fractals, exponentials and imaginary numbers, the Game of Life, among many other goodies, all presented in a most entertaining style. Both fun and instructive."--John Allen Paulos is the author of several books including Innumeracy and A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper"

"Alex Bellos The Grapes of Math is a delicious grab bag of mathematical miscellany that includes Benford s law, fractals, exponentials and imaginary numbers, the Game of Life, among many other goodies, all presented in a most entertaining style. Both fun and instructive."--John Allen Paulos is the author of several books including Innumeracy and A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper"

"Alex Bellos' The Grapes of Math is a delicious grab bag of mathematical miscellany that includes Benford's law, fractals, exponentials and imaginary numbers, the Game of Life, among many other goodies, all presented in a most entertaining style. Both fun and instructive."--John Allen Paulos is the author of several books including Innumeracy and A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper

"Think of the best storyteller you know and the coolest teacher you ever had, and now you've got some idea of what Alex Bellos is like. His Grapes of Math taught me something new on every page. Better yet, it made me laugh and want to tell someone what I'd just read. Math has never been so much fun."--Steven Strogatz, professor of applied mathematics, Cornell University, and author, The Joy of x

Edition details

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1451640099
• ISBN 13: 9781451640090
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Surreal Mccoy
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 337