About the book
From triangles and rotations to cones and fractals – a talented mathematician and narrator Alex Bellos with great enthusiasm will conduct a tour of mathematics for you.
Fascinating stories, written by each language, convincingly prove: mathematics can be interesting, affordable, understandable. And mathematics changed and changes our world.
Alex turns the most complex formulas and calculations into accessible and readable, analyzes a survey of 30 thousand people to identify the most popular number in the world, meets with the designer of the world’s first loops in Germany, participants in the International Congress of Mathematics in India, a private detective in Oregon and Mathematics, which searches for the universe in Illyninois.
Reading this book, you will not immediately be able to realize what you study and understand complex ideas and concepts that seemed to be available only to scientists and specialists. The author will show you how interesting and cheerful M …
Author
Bellos Alex
Editor
Shulpina Natalya
Translator
Yatsyuk Natalia
Publisher
Mann, Ivanov and Ferber, 2015
Series
MYTH. Scientific
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