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The grapes of math : how life reflects numbers and numbers reflect life /

"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 di...

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Основен автор: Bellos, Alex, 1969- (Author)
Формат: Книга
Език: English
Публикувано: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2014.
Издание: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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Съдържание:
  • Every number tells a story
  • The long tail of the law
  • Love triangles
  • Coneheads
  • Bring on the revolution
  • All about e
  • The positive power of negative thinking
  • Professor calculus
  • The titl of this chapter contains three erors
  • Cell mates.