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Alex's Adventures in Numberland: Tenth Anniversary Edition
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Alex’s Adventures in Numberland: Tenth Anniversary Edition

Alex Bellos
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The tenth anniversary edition of the Sunday Times bestselling book

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.

Shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize

This anniversary edition has been revised and updated by the author.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Country
United Kingdom
Date
1 December 2020
Pages
448
ISBN
9781526623997

The tenth anniversary edition of the Sunday Times bestselling book

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.

Shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize

This anniversary edition has been revised and updated by the author.

Read More
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Country
United Kingdom
Date
1 December 2020
Pages
448
ISBN
9781526623997

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