Full name: Alex's Adventures in Numberland: Dispatches from the Wonderful World of Mathematics

Author: Alex Bellos Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Science, History Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781408809594 1408809591

The world of maths can seem mind-boggling, irrelevant and, let's face it, boring. This groundbreaking book reclaims maths from the geeks. Mathematical ideas underpin just about everything in our lives: from the surprising geometry of the 50p piece to how probability can help you win in any casino. In search of weird and wonderful mathematical phenomena, Alex Bellos travels across the globe and meets the world's fastest mental calculators in Germany and a startlingly numerate chimpanzee in Japan. Packed with fascinating, eye-opening anecdotes, Alex's Adventures in Numberland is an exhilarating cocktail of history, reportage and mathematical proofs that will leave you awestruck. Similar books: The Joy of x by Steven Strogatz How Not to Be Wrong by Jordan Ellenberg Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities by Ian Stewart Archimedes' Revenge by Paul Hoffman Geekspeak by Graham Tattersall Mathematics by Timothy Gowers 50 Mathematical Ideas You Really Need to Know by Tony Crilly Coincidences, Chaos, and All That Math Jazz by Edward B. Burger by John Allen Paulos The Math Gene by Keith Devlin In Pursuit of the Unknown by Ian Stewart The Mathematical Tourist by Ivars Peterson Love and Math by Edward Frenkel The Grapes of Math by Alex Bellos Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension by Matt Parker The Code Book by Simon Singh The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee A Man on the Moon by Andrew Chaikin The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert