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Published
Atlantic Books, November 2012
ISBN
9781848878440
Format
Softcover, 240 pages
Dimensions
21cm × 14.8cm × 2.4cm

The Joy of X A Guided Tour of Mathematics, from One to Infinity by

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How should you flip your mattress to get the maximum wear out of it? How many people should you date before settling down? How does Google search the internet? Why does the stock market swing so often, and so wildly? Award-winning professor Steven Strogatz acts as our guide as he takes us on a tour of numbers that - unbeknownst to the unitiated - connect pop culture, literature, art, philosophy, current affairs, business and even every day life.

Strogatz explains the great ideas of maths - from negative numbers to calculus, fat tails to infinity - with clarity, wit and insight.

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