Alex's Adventures in Numberland: Dispatches from the Wonderful World of Mathematics

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Registered office address: Unit 34 Vulcan House Business Centre, Vulcan Road, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE5 3EF. From the world's fastest mental calculators in Germany to numerologists in the US desert, from a startlingly numerate chimpanzee in Japan to venerable Hindu sages in India, these dispatches from 'Numberland' are an unlikely but exhilarating cocktail of history, reportage and mathematical proofs. His books include the bestselling Alex's Adventures in Numberland and its sequel Alex Through the Looking Glass , Visions of Numberland , Can You Solve My Problems? Alex explains the surprising geometry of the 50p piece, and the strategy of how best to gamble it in a casino.

Whether writing about how algebra solved Swedish traffic problems, visiting the Mental Calculation World Cup to disclose the secrets of lightning calculation, or exploring the links between pineapples and beautiful teeth, Bellos is a wonderfully engaging guide who never fails to delight even as he edifies. Ramanujan, in the early twentieth centiry, developed some remarkable infinite series for pi, including the mind blowing one on page 164 (can be seen at http://en. It is to be hoped that the uncountable delights of Bellos’s book, its verve and feeling for mathematics, convey its enchantments to a new generation - Times Literary Supplement You may also be interested in.All of our books are 100% brand new, unread and purchased directly from the publishers in bulk allowing us to pass the huge savings on to you! Exploring the mysteries of randomness, he explains why it is impossible for our iPods to randomly select songs.

Bellos proceeds with a revelatory anecdote illustrating our own socialized mania for quantification. A tenth anniversary edition of the iconic book about the wonderful world of mathsSunday Times bestseller | Shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize'Original and highly entertaining' Sunday Times'A page turner about humanity's strange, never easy and, above all, never dull relationship with numbers' New Scientist'Will leave you hooked on numbers' Daily TelegraphIn this richly entertaining and accessible book, Alex Bellos explodes the myth that maths is best left to the geeks, and demonstrates the remarkable ways it's linked to our everyday lives. Also the rudimentary thought of quantifying ideas and enumerating large/small quantities , their relation between scales and the ethno-religious constraints , the edification of ideas through various times and filters in human history is quite captivatingly presented in this book and there influence on modern day contemporary society is looked into with lucidity.After studying mathematics and philosophy at university I joined the Evening Argus in Brighton as a trainee reporter.