TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bellos,Alex
TI  - The grapes of math: how life reflects numbers and numbers reflect life 
SN  - 9781451640090 (hardback)
AV  - QA 99 .B195 2014 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York
PB  - Simon & Schuster
KW  - Mathematics
KW  - Miscellanea
KW  - MATHEMATICS / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
KW  - MATHEMATICS / Essays
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-322) and index
N2  - "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 discovery with his signature wit and limitless enthusiasm. He sifts through over 30,000 survey submissions to uncover the world's favorite number, and meets a mathematician who looks for universes in his garage. He attends the World Mathematical Congress in India, and visits the engineer who designed the first roller-coaster loop. Get hooked on math as Alex delves deep into humankind's turbulent relationship with numbers, and reveals how they have shaped the world we live in"--
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