{"product_id":"alexs-adventures-in-numberland","title":"Alexs Adventures In Numberland","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003eA tenth anniversary edition of the iconic book about the wonderful world of maths\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e bestseller | Shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Original and highly entertaining''\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘A page turner about humanity''s strange, never easy and, above all, never dull relationship with numbers'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Scientist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Will leave you hooked on numbers'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlex explains the surprising geometry of the 50p piece, and the strategy of how best to gamble it in a casino. He shines a light on the mathematical patterns in nature, and on the peculiar predictability of random behaviour. He eats a potato crisp whose revolutionary shape was unpalatable to the ancient Greeks, and he shows the deep connections between maths, religion and philosophy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom 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. The world of maths is a much friendlier and more colourful place than you might have imagined.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis anniversary edition is fully revised and updated.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57339780759934,"sku":"NW9781526623997","price":16.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781526623997.jpg?v=1778639508","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/alexs-adventures-in-numberland","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}