Alex Bellos Livres

"Explorer l'univers des mathématiques n'est pas du tout la même chose à l'âge adulte qu'à l'enfance, quand l'impératif de réussite aux examens implique qu'on se contente de survoler les cétoses les plus captivantes. J'ai toujours eu envie de communiquer l'excitation et l'émerveillement qui accompagnent l'exploration mathématique. (Et de montrer que les mathématiciens sont drôles. Nous sommes les rois de la logique, et cela nous donne un sens extrêmement fin de l'absurde)".Saviez-vous quelle est la probabilité que lors d'un match de foot, deux joueurs partagent la même date d'anniversaire ? Soupçonniez-vous qu'en Amazonie, les Munduruku ne comptent que jusqu'à cinq ? Tour à tour drôle et sérieux, Alex Bellos nous emmène à la rencontre d'un gourou des maths mystiques en Inde, de calculateurs prodiges à Leipzig et de fanatiques du boulier au Japon. Chemin faisant, il donne vie aux thèmes fondamentaux des mathématiques, et nous ouvre les portes d'un monde fascinant.

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Focusing on the captivating world of mathematics, this book transforms intricate concepts into an engaging narrative, making it accessible for readers with a keen intellectual curiosity. The author, known for their previous work, combines humor and insight, ensuring that even the most challenging topics become enjoyable. This survey promises to enlighten and entertain, appealing to both math enthusiasts and those new to the subject.

Put your wits—and survival instincts—to the test! Publisher’s Note: Perilous Problems for Puzzle Lovers was previously published in the UK under the title So You Think You’ve Got Problems? In Perilous Problems for Puzzle Lovers, Alex Bellos collects 125 of the world’s greatest stumpers—many dangerous to your person, and all dangerous to your pride. Brace yourself to wrestle with wordplay, grapple with geometry, and scramble for survival. For example . . . Ten lions and a sheep are in a pen. Any lion who eats the sheep will fall asleep. A sleeping lion will be eaten by another lion, who falls asleep in turn. If the lions are all perfect logicians, what happens? Bellos pairs his fiendish brainteasers with fascinating history, so you’ll meet Alcuin, Sam Loyd, and other puzzle masters of yore—in between deranged despots and wily jailers with an unaccountable taste for riddles. Will you make it out alive? And what about the sheep?

A unique entry in the selling like hotcakes grown-up colouring category, from a bestselling math writer and a topnotch illustrator: 78 colouring designs and games that explore symmetry, fractals, tessellations, randomness, and more!

The second book in the groundbreaking new series from two bestselling writers that teaches you about the world through football.This book is packed with awesome true stories, real science and fascinating facts and will make you laugh loads - and it's all about football. What is a vomitory? When do footballers wee? Where do goalkeepers let in chickens? When did women start playing football? You'll find the answers to these questions and more in chapters on subjects such as biology, maths and history. Illustrated throughout with hilarious cartoons and filled with laugh-out-loud gags this is the perfect book for any boy or girl who loves football.

Crossing continents and borders, bestselling author Alex Bellos has gathered more than one hundred of the world's best conundrums that test your deduction, intuition and street smarts. These lexical perplexities uncover the secrets of languages from Ancient Egyptian to internet slang and will delight fans of wordplay, Sudoku and anyone with a curiosity about the world. Some of the problems are as simple as ABC. Others will have you muttering "it's all Greek to me". Together they celebrate the rich diversity of human language and culture

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Whether writing about how algebra solved Swedish traffic problems, visiting the Mental Calculation World Cup to disclose the secrets of lightning calculation, or exploring the links between pineapples and beautiful teeth, Bellos guides his readers into the world of mathematics while uncovering fascinating stories of mathematical achievement--from the breakthroughs of Euclid, the greatest mathematician of all time, to the creations of today's Zen master of origami

From triangles, rotations and power laws, to fractals, cones and curves, bestselling author Alex Bellos takes you on a journey of mathematical discovery with his signature wit, engaging stories and limitless enthusiasm. As he narrates a series of eye-opening encounters with lively personalities all over the world, Alex demonstrates how numbers have come to be our friends, are fascinating and extremely accessible, and how they have changed our world. He turns even the dreaded calculus into an easy-to-grasp mathematical exposition, and sifts through over 30,000 survey submissions to reveal the world's favourite number. In Germany, he meets the engineer who designed the first roller-coaster loop, whilst in India he joins the world's highly numerate community at the International Congress of Mathematicians. He explores the wonders behind the Game of Life program, and explains mathematical logic, growth and negative numbers. Stateside, he hangs out with a private detective in Oregon and meets the mathematician who looks for universes from his garage in Illinois. Read this captivating book, and you won't realise that you're learning about complex concepts. Alex will get you hooked on maths as he delves deep into humankind's turbulent relationship with numbers, and proves just how much fun we can have with them.