Alex's Adventures in Numberland: Dispatches from the Wonderful World of Mathematics

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Alex's Adventures in Numberland: Dispatches from the Wonderful World of Mathematics

Alex's Adventures in Numberland: Dispatches from the Wonderful World of Mathematics

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It's no mean feat to be able to explain concepts like Zeno's paradox, regression to the mean, squaring a circle and Riemann's non-Euclidean geometry without using any equations. Bellos does that and more! He's juggling hardcore mathematics, entertaining (and often humorous) anecdotes and practical applications of math at the same time! Alex's Adventures in Numberland is worth celebrating because Bellos does not accept the tiresome cliche that maths is boring and therefore needs to be made interesting to uninterested people. Instead, he effortlessly reveals the truth of just how fascinating, how human, how intensely interesting this subject (and its history) really is. Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books: The shortlist

Solid state physics Quantum theory Chemical bonds SCIENCE Physics Condensed Matter Física do estado sólido Mecânica quântica While I was reading this book , I noticed it was published by Bloomsbury and I remembered that a few years ago they were doing rather poorly until J.K.Rowling came along with a seven volume Christian parable for children and magically transformed their financial performance. Publisher's biography of Alex Bellos". bloomsbury.com. Archived from the original on 16 May 2012 . Retrieved 10 April 2012. Bellos, Alex (2014). The Grapes of Math: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life. p.324. [ ISBNmissing]PDF / EPUB File Name: Alexs_Adventures_in_Numberland_-_Alex_Bellos.pdf, Alexs_Adventures_in_Numberland_-_Alex_Bellos.epub

Several translations of the book have been published. The Italian version, Il meraviglioso mondo dei numeri, won both the €10,000 Galileo Prize for science books [14] [15] [16] and the 2011 Peano Prize [17] for mathematics books. In the United States, the book was given the title Here's Looking at Euclid. [18] There are many tidbits in the book that refresh your ideas of math. Indeed, for me this was a refresher of my entire math curriculum from school. And this book is also an answer (without actually trying to be) to all those people who ask – 'Why do we learn math if it has no real application in life?' Well, as amply demonstrated by Bellos, everything that is ever done in mathematics, be it silly games or idle curiosity, everything has been put to some use and had contributed to the progress of humanity. Mathematicians have explored ever more abstract worlds and geometries, floating in dimensions that may or may not exist and finding symmetries and patterns in hard-to-imagine shapes. They have studied the properties and patterns in numbers, straight lines, curves, surfaces, cubes and hypercubes, all in a bid to understand how these things fit together and what those details might reveal about the deeper logic of mathematics.The most endearing aspect of the book is that it doesn't take sides. It is incredibly neutral in its treatment of all the branches of math, no matter how bogus they may seem (I'm looking at you, Vedic math). All the people in this book have been treated as creative artists and their work has been explored with childlike wonder.



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