The Grapes of Math: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life (Hardcover) by Alex Bellos

from Writermala

As we all well know, we have a Love hate relationship with Math. We either love Math or Love to hate it. Well, here is a book that you will love regardless of which group you fall under! I enjoyed every chapter and was just astounded by some of the things I read. More importantly, I found Alex Be...

from bensdad00

Much more technical then his first book, but consequently more informative as well. Excellent as both a refresher for forgotten material and as an introduction to new concepts. Discussion of set theory, pi (and its would be replacement tau), logarithms, negative roots and calculus are some of the...

from PDCRead

You mention maths to people and they either think Mental Abuse To Humans or run screaming from the room. But we are surrounded by numbers, they are in the things that we read, play a key role in everything we do online and the wonders of a simple cone. In this book Bellos draws out the stories be...

from nbmars

Alex Bellos has a knack for whimsical book titles (his previous book was Here's Looking at Euclid) and for making math interesting. In The Grapes of Math, he covers a wide range of only tangentially (get it?) related topics like how parabolas differ from catenaries, the area under a cycloid, and ...

from Writermala

As we all well know, we have a Love hate relationship with Math. We either love Math or Love to hate it. Well, here is a book that you will love regardless of which group you fall under! I enjoyed every chapter and was just astounded by some of the things I read. More importantly, I found Alex Be...