num_pages: 322
description: From the bestselling author of Heres 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 30000 survey submissions to uncover the worlds favourite 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 humankinds turbulent relationship with numbers and reveals how they have shaped the world we live in.
language: English
title: The Grapes of Math: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life
publisher: Simon & Schuster