How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life Bellos, Alex creator Author text United Kingdom Bloomsbury 2014 monographic eng

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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. 510 BEL 9781408817773 KCU 240913 20240913095007.0 end