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Alex Through the Looking-Glass: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life

hardcover – January 1, 2014
by Alex Bellos
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ISBN-13: 9781408817773 ISBN-10: 1408817772
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Binding
hardcover
Published
January 1, 2014
Weight
1.5 lbs
Dimensions
16.20×3.30×22.90 cm

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Alex Through the Looking-Glass: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life by Alex Bellos. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781408817773.

Alex Bellos, author of Snowflake Seashell Star, takes the reader on a tour of his favourite mathematical concepts to reveal the hidden numbers that underpin our everyday lives. In the course of his travels he explores the Ordnance Surveys obsession with trigonometry, explains why rollercoasters are a monument to Newtons innovations, ponders why we have superstitions about certain numbers, delves into the mysteries of hyperboloids and meets an anonymous member of a secret mathematical sect.