TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bellos,Alex
AU  - McCoy, Surreal,
TI  - Alex through the looking-glass: how numbers reflect life and life reflects numbers 
SN  - 9781408817773
U1  - 510 BE AL 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - London
PB  - Bloomsbury
KW  - Mathematics
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Popular works
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-322) and index
N2  - 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
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