| Alex's Adventures in Numberland | 
| Author: Alex Bellos
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Category: Book
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Rating:  31 reviews
Sales Rank: 275
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 448
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.7
ISBN: 0747597162
EAN: 9780747597162
Publication Date: April 5, 2010
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Product Description
Explodes the myth that maths is best left to the geeks. Covering subjects from adding to algebra, from set theory to statistics, and from logarithms to logical paradoxes, this title explains how mathematical ideas underpin just about everything in our lives. It also explains the strategy of how best to gamble in a casino.
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Alex's Adventures in Numberland August 30, 2010
Dopapier (Suffolk. UK)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is an absolutely enthralling book. It brings mathematics (and algebra and geometry) to life and is intensely readable. If you are not interested in numbers in any way, shape or form, it might be tough but I have difficulty putting it down. It makes both people and concepts real.
Do the math Amazon !! August 18, 2010
xraymiike
1 out of 8 found this review helpful
I think this is a great book, but the Amazon scoring system is SERIOUSLY flawed.
At the time of typing 25 scores of 5-stars and 5 reviews of 4-stars gives an average score of 4.82758621 (not 5-stars).
Whist petty I think the subject of this great read deserves better mathematical rigour.
Mike`s adventure in number land ;) August 18, 2010
M. C. Walker (Leeds, West Yorkshire Great Britain)
yes a good overview of Maths a subject I have tended to find sticky. I like how it relates the maths to real life.
It helps the dryness of Maths click into place. Still working my way through it. It should be made into a Television series!
One of the best browse buys I've made August 16, 2010
Rob Sawyer (Hampshire UK)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I found Simon Singh's 'Fermat's Last Theorem' a bit of a page turner which either makes me a right saddo or an intellectual genius. When I saw this book on one of my frequent browses I thought that sounds right up my street so bought it (it had good reviews).
Absolutely loved it, it is a romp through the history of maths in bite sized chunks which investigate certain aspects, e.g. sequences etc.
That man Euler was a genius wasn't he?
Alex Bellos has a very good way of writing, easy to read and sprinkled, sparingly, with a bit of humour too - thoroughly enjoyable. I'll even forgive him for saying 'math' once (well twice if you include a quote but that was from an American and we all know they can't speak English) and a typo in the logarithms section (can you spot it?).
Well done on an excellent book.
Pleasure trip - no need for daring August 16, 2010
Dr. Wynford Bellin (Cymru)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As one who had trouble in school with math, I bought this for someone else as a gift, but immediately had to buy my own copy. It was such a pleasure to read and unawares learn so much about a way of thinking that had eluded me alongside other uses of number such as divining the future. It was sheer pleasure all the way - no need for daring.
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