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Title: ALEX'S ADVENTURES IN NUMBERLAND
By: Alex Bellos
Format: Paperback

List price: £10.99


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ISBN 10: 1408809591
ISBN 13: 9781408809594
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC
Pub. date: 1 April, 2011
Pages: 448
Description: The Sunday Times bestsellerShortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize
Synopsis: 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.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Prizes: Short-listed for BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2010 Short-listed for Galaxy National Book Awards: Non-Fiction Book of the Year
Returns: Returnable
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