Alex's Adventures in Numberland: Dispatches from the Wonderful World of Mathematics

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Alex Bellos's agency profile – Janklow & Nesbit (UK) Ltd". janklowandnesbit.co.uk. Archived from the original on 14 December 2017 . Retrieved 11 April 2012.

You must, must, must read this book. See the excerpts to know why (excerpts annotated with a lot of love)Mathematicians have explored ever more abstract worlds and geometries, floating in dimensions that may or may not exist and finding symmetries and patterns in hard-to-imagine shapes. They have studied the properties and patterns in numbers, straight lines, curves, surfaces, cubes and hypercubes, all in a bid to understand how these things fit together and what those details might reveal about the deeper logic of mathematics.

PDF / EPUB File Name: Alexs_Adventures_in_Numberland_-_Alex_Bellos.pdf, Alexs_Adventures_in_Numberland_-_Alex_Bellos.epubMatthews, Robert (15 November 2011). "Telegraph article on the Royal Society Prize for Science Books Prize 2011". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 15 November 2011. Bellos, Alex (2012). "Alex Bellos: Writing about numbers". numberphile.com. Brady Haran. Archived from the original on 16 May 2013 . Retrieved 1 April 2013. Bellos is a former Guardian reporter who studied math and philosophy at Oxford University. He is pictured above among the main promoters of Vedic mathematics at the Shankaracharya of Puri’s temple in Puri, Orissa, India. This is an excellently researched and well-written book. It distinguishes itself from the body of popular science books by interspersing and motivating the mathematics it contains using stories, interviews and conversations with a variety of people, ranging from mathematicians and linguists to mystics. The result is a mixture of journalism, travel literature and mathematical history that will have a much wider appeal than many other accessible texts on mathematics.