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Alex's Adventures in Numberland by Alex Bellos
$24.99 AUD
Category: 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
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
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
Can You Solve My Problems?: A casebook of ingenious, perplexing and totally satisfying puzzles by Alex Bellos
$22.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
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
Pele : the Autobiography by Pele with Orlando Duarte & Alex Bellos (tr from Portuguese Dabiel Hahn)
$34.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Even people who don't know football know Pele. The best of a generation of Brazilian players universally acknowledged as the most accomplished and attractive group of footballers ever to play the game, he won the World Cup three times and is Brazil's all-time record goalscorer. But how did this man - ...Show more
Snowflake, Seashell, Star: Colouring Adventures in Numberland by Alex Bellos
$19.99 AUD
Category: Display & Gift
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
The Language Lover's Puzzle Book - Lexical Perplexities and Cracking Conundrums from Across the Globe by Alex Bellos
$29.99 AUD
Category: Display & Gift
From the bestselling author of Alex's Adventures in Numberland and Can You Solve My Problems? comes a fascinating, hugely entertaining collection of puzzles for crossword addicts and language-lovers of all stripes.
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