01022nam a22001817a 4500 KCU 20240913095007.0 240913b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781408817773 KCU end KCU KCU AACR2 22 510 BEL Bellos, Alex Author Alex Through the Looking-Glass : How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life United Kingdom Bloomsbury 2014 xi, 339 P. ; ill. : 26 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 Survey's obsession with trigonometry, explains why rollercoasters are a monument to Newton's 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. ddc BK 0 36786 36786 0 0 ddc 0 0 NFIC KCU/LIB/01 KCU/LIB/01 REF 2024-10-03 purchase 0 510 BEL 5781 2024-10-03 13:10:06 1 2024-10-03 BK