00000cam a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773862388262 Buklod 20210305234301.0 m | | ta 140107s2015 enkaf rb |001 0|eng d 9781408845721 (iLib)UPBAG-00039403049 OLC BAG rda eng QA 99 B45 2015 Bellos, Alex, 1969- author. Alex through the looking-glass how numbers reflect life and life reflects numbers Alex Bellos ; illustrations by the Surreal McCoy. Paperback edition. London Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2015. xiii, 337 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations (some color) 20 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Every number tells a story -- The long tail of the law -- Love triangles -- Coneheads -- Bring on the revolution -- All about e -- The positive power of negative thinking -- Professor calculus -- The titlk of this chapter contains three erors -- Cell mates. 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. Mathematics Social aspects Popular works. Surreal McCoy (Cartoonist) illustrator. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN QA 99 B45 2015 Book