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Alex Through the Looking-Glass: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life by Alex Bellos
25.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
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 ...Show more
Alex Through the Looking-glass: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life by Alex Bellos
37.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
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 ...Show more
Alex's Adventures in Numberland by Alex Bellos
30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The world of maths can seem mind-boggling, irrelevant and, let's face it, boring. This groundbreaking book reclaims maths from the geeks. Mathematical ideas underpin just about everything in our lives: from the surprising geometry of the 50p piece to how probability can help you win in any casino. In se ...Show more
Alex's Adventures in Numberland - Despatches from the wonderful world of mathematics by Alex Bellos
35.00 NZD
38.00 (7% off)
Category: Non-fiction
In this richly entertaining and accessible book, Alex Bellos explodes the myth that maths is best left to the geeks. Covering subjects from adding to algebra, from set theory to statistics, and from logarithms to logical paradoxes, he explains how mathematical ideas underpin just about everything in our ...Show more
Alex's Adventures in Numberland - Tenth Anniversary Edition by Alex Bellos
25.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The tenth anniversary edition of the Sunday Times bestselling bookThe world of maths can seem mind-boggling, irrelevant and, let's face it, boring. This groundbreaking book reclaims maths from the geeks. Mathematical ideas underpin just about everything in our lives- from the surprising geometry of the ...Show more
Can You Solve My Problems?: A casebook of ingenious, perplexing and totally satisfying puzzles by Alex Bellos
25.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
Are you smarter than a Singaporean ten-year-old? Can you beat Sherlock Holmes? If you think the answer is yes - I challenge you to solve my problems. Here are 125 of the world's best brainteasers from the last two millennia, taking us from ancient China to medieval Europe, Victorian England to modern-da ...Show more
Football School Epic Heroes by Alex Bellos
17.00 NZD
Category: Fiction Age 9-12
Celebrate the greatest names and teams in football history with this collection of 50 true stories. Discover the greatest football moments of all time in this collection of 50 exciting stories, perfect for fans of Football School: Star Players. Discover the incredible stories of heroes such as Messi, Ro ...Show more
Snowflake, Seashell, Star: Colouring Adventures in Numberland by Alex Bellos
23.00 NZD
Category: Art
This book offers a joyful contemplation of mathematical patterns has long been part of the human experience, from the philosophers of Ancient Greece to the artists of the Renaissance, via Islamic design and Hindu mandalas. Now, Alex Bellos, the bestselling author of Alex's Adventures in Numberland, take ...Show more
So You Think You've Got Problems?: Surprising and rewarding puzzles to sharpen your mind by Alex Bellos
37.00 NZD
Category: Puzzles/Games
This is a collection of ingenious and satisfying puzzles drawn from across the ancient and modern world. You will be imprisoned by a sadistic logician; thrown in an arena with a famished lion; and balancing along an ever-expanding elastic band. Implausible scenarios in daily life, perhaps. But in puzzle ...Show more
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