Original and highly entertaining

Sunday Times

Will leave you hooked on numbers

Daily Telegraph

A page turner about humanity's strange, never easy and, above all, never dull relationship with numbers

New Scientist

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Outstanding ... The style is laced with humour, but at all times, the star of the show is mathematics

Ian Stewart, Prospect

If there was one book that was going to be compulsory for the nation to read it would be this one

- Evan Davies,

A magical mystery tour . . . Philosophy, religion, magic, history and basic sheep-counting are gather together in Bellos’s bag of numbers

The Times

Revealing and insightful

Independent

A wholly original, beautifully written book about mathematics that does its subject justice but is so widely accessible that it will please everyone regardless of their numeracy

New Scientist

An entertaining and accessible account of how maths underpins our lives. Maths will never appear so forbidding again

TES

It is to be hoped that the uncountable delights of Bellos’s book, its verve and feeling for mathematics, convey its enchantments to a new generation

Times Literary Supplement

A tenth anniversary edition of the iconic book about the wonderful world of mathsSunday Times bestseller | Shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize‘Original and highly entertaining' Sunday Times‘A page turner about humanity's strange, never easy and, above all, never dull relationship with numbers' New Scientist‘Will leave you hooked on numbers' Daily TelegraphIn this richly entertaining and accessible book, Alex Bellos explodes the myth that maths is best left to the geeks, and demonstrates the remarkable ways it's linked to our everyday lives.Alex explains the surprising geometry of the 50p piece, and the strategy of how best to gamble it in a casino. He shines a light on the mathematical patterns in nature, and on the peculiar predictability of random behaviour. He eats a potato crisp whose revolutionary shape was unpalatable to the ancient Greeks, and he shows the deep connections between maths, religion and philosophy.From the world's fastest mental calculators in Germany to numerologists in the US desert, from a startlingly numerate chimpanzee in Japan to venerable Hindu sages in India, these dispatches from 'Numberland' are an unlikely but exhilarating cocktail of history, reportage and mathematical proofs. The world of maths is a much friendlier and more colourful place than you might have imagined.This anniversary edition is fully revised and updated.
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The Sunday Times bestsellerShortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize
A tenth anniversary edition of the iconic book about the wonderful world of mathsSunday Times bestseller | Shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize
With wit and wisdom, Alex Bellos unlocks the wonders of numbers for the general, curious reader

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781526623997
Publisert
2020-05-14
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Vekt
384 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Aldersnivå
G, U, P, 01, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
448

Forfatter

Om bidragsyterne

Alex Bellos writes about maths and football. He has a degree in Mathematics and Philosophy from Oxford, and is a former South America correspondent for the Guardian. His books include Alex Through the Looking Glass, Visions of Numberland, Can You Solve My Problems? and So You Think You’ve Got Problems? as well as the Football School series of children’s books, which he co-authors. He has been the puzzle columnist for the Guardian since 2015. Alex lives in London with his wife and two sons.