Alex s Adventures in Numberland Dispatches from the Wonderful World of Mathematics 1st Edition by Alex Bellos ISBN 1408809591 9781408809594

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ISBN 10: 1408809591 
ISBN 13: 9781408809594
Author: Alex Bellos

In 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.

Alex s Adventures in Numberland Dispatches from the Wonderful World of Mathematics 1st Table of contents:

1. Zero Expectations
   — The origin and mystery of zero

2. What’s the Problem?
   — Why we do math and how problem-solving shapes understanding

3. Behold!
   — The ancient roots of mathematics in different cultures

4. The Man of Numbers
   — Fibonacci and the spread of Hindu-Arabic numerals

5. Life of Pi
   — A journey through geometry and the circle’s allure

6. In Perfect Harmony
   — Ratios, music, and the Pythagorean legacy

7. The X-Factor
   — Algebra, symbols, and solving the unknown

8. Chance Would Be a Fine Thing
   — Probability, randomness, and gambling

9. Think of a Number
   — The psychology and cultural quirks of number perception

10. Mass Intellect
    — Crowd wisdom, surveys, and how people think numerically

11. The Meaning of Life
    — Mathematics meets philosophy: from infinity to Gödel

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