The Sunday Times bestsellerShortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize
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Alex Bellos
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A tenth anniversary edition of the iconic book about the wonderful world of mathsrnrnSunday Times bestseller | Shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prizernrn'Original and highly entertaining' Sunday Timesrn'A page turner about humanity's strange, never easy and, above all, never dull relationship with numbers' New Scientistrn'Will leave you hooked on numbers' Daily TelegraphrnrnIn 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.rnrnAlex 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.rnrnFrom 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.rnrnThis anniversary edition is fully revised and updated.
Has sold over 100,000 copies in the UK alone and continues to sell 3000 a year, a decade after it was first published
