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Alex's Adventures in Numberland
Alex's Adventures in Numberland
Alex Bellos
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In a charming, conversational prose style, and with diagrams to ease brain stress, he draws us into a forbidding world, often going into the history of famous bits of maths, including the origins of Tetris and Rubik's Cube. The most immediately fascinating chapter is on the application of... Read More

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