Here's Looking at Euclid: From Counting Ants to Games of Chance - An Awe-Inspiring Journey Through the World of Numbers - Paperback
by Alex Bellos
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Free PressISBN-13:9781416588283ISBN-10:1416588280UPC:9781416588283Book Category:MathematicsBook Subcategory:Essays, Number TheorySize:8.42 x 5.53 x 0.82 inchesWeight:0.6305Product ID:SCYXYB8AB1
Too often math gets a bad rap, characterized as dry and difficult. But, Alex Bellos says, "math can be inspiring and brilliantly creative. Mathematical thought is one of the great achievements of the human race, and arguably the foundation of all human progress. The world of mathematics is a remarkable place." Bellos has traveled all around the globe and has plunged into history to uncover...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Free PressISBN-13:9781416588283ISBN-10:1416588280UPC:9781416588283Book Category:MathematicsBook Subcategory:Essays, Number TheorySize:8.42 x 5.53 x 0.82 inchesWeight:0.6305Product ID:SCYXYB8AB1
Bellos, Alex: - Alex Bellos has a degree in Mathematics and Philosophy from Oxford University. Curator-in-residence at the Science Museum and the Guardian's math blogger, he has worked in London and Rio de Janeiro, where he was the paper's unusually numerate foreign correspondent. In 2002 he wrote Futebol, a critically acclaimed book about Brazilian football, and in 2006 he ghostwrote Pelé's...
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