From triangles, rotations and power laws, to fractals, cones and
curves, bestselling author Alex Bellos takes you on a journey of
mathematical discovery with his signature wit, engaging stories and
limitless enthusiasm. As he narrates a series of eye-opening
encounters with lively personalities all over the world, Alex
demonstrates how numbers have come to be our friends, are
fascinating and extremely accessible, and how they have changed our
world. He turns even the dreaded calculus into an easy-to-grasp
mathematical exposition, and sifts through over 30,000 survey
submissions to reveal the world's favourite number. In Germany, he
meets the engineer who designed the first roller-coaster loop,
whilst in India he joins the world's highly numerate community at
the International Congress of Mathematicians. He explores the
wonders behind the Game of Life program, and explains mathematical
logic, growth and negative numbers. Stateside, he hangs out with a
private detective in Oregon and meets the mathematician who looks
for universes from his garage in Illinois. Read this captivating
book, and you won't realise that you're learning about complex
concepts. Alex will get you hooked on maths as he delves deep into
humankind's turbulent relationship with numbers, and proves just
how much fun we can have with them.
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