Автор: Alex Bellos
Название: The Grapes of Math: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
Год: 2014
Формат: epub/pdf
Размер: 38.8 Mb
Язык: Английский

From the bestselling author of Here’s Looking at Euclid, a dazzling new book that turns even the most complex math into a brilliantly entertaining narrative.
From triangles, rotations and power laws, to cones, curves and the dreaded calculus, Alex takes you on a journey of mathematical discovery with his signature wit and limitless enthusiasm. He sifts through over 30,000 survey submissions to uncover the world’s favourite number, and meets a mathematician who looks for universes in his garage. He attends the World Mathematical Congress in India, and visits the engineer who designed the first roller-coaster loop.