Alex Bellos
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"From the bestselling author of Here's Looking at Euclid, a dazzling new book that turns even the most complex math into a brilliantly entertaining narrative. From triangles, rotations and power laws, to cones, curves and the dreaded calculus, Alex takes you on a journey of mathematical discovery with his signature wit and limitless enthusiasm. He sifts through over 30,000 survey submissions to uncover the world's favourite number, and meets a mathematician...
Author
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to Soccer School, where every class is about soccer! In science class, you'll find out how soccer players make sure they poop before games. In math, you'll figure out the odds of dying during the game. In drama, you'll learn about some famous foul fakers! History, English, geography, political science, physics, and more are on the syllabus of this school, where soccer fans are the star students"--Back cover.
Author
Series
Football School volume season 2
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The history of soccer is explained through the lens of such school subjects as math, biology, and geography, in a book that includes weird trivia and quizzes.
Author
Series
Football School volume Season 3
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to Soccer School, where every class is about soccer! In science class, you'll find out how soccer players make sure they poop before games. In math, you'll figure out the odds of dying during the game. In drama, you'll learn about some famous foul fakers! History, English, geography, political science, physics, and more are on the syllabus of this school, where soccer fans are the star students"--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
The Experiment
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Bestselling math writer Alex Bellos has a challenge for you: 125 of the world's best brainteasers from the last two millennia. Armed with logic alone, you'll detect counterfeit coins, navigate river crossings, and untangle family trees. Then--with just a dash of high school math--you'll tie a rope around the Earth, match wits with a cryptic wizard, and use four 4s to create every number from 1 to 50. (It can be done!). Can You Solve My Problems?...
Author
Series
Ke xue ren wen volume 42
Publisher
Shi bao wen hua chu ban qi ye gu fen you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2012
Language
中文
10) The language lover's puzzle book: perple_ing le_ical patterns to unmi_ and ve_ing synta_ to outfo_
Author
Publisher
The Experiment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"100 wonder-filled word puzzles that thrill and tantalize with the beauty, magic, and weirdness of world language"--
