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Mathematical physics

Mathematical physics

A classy look through mathematics

11 Sep 2014
Taken from the September 2014 issue of Physics World

Alex Through the Looking Glass: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life
Alex Bellos
2014 Bloomsbury £18.99hb 352pp

All about numbers
It is depressingly common to hear people say they don’t understand maths, or don’t get i

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Dean Burnett is a neuroscientist and psychiatry lecturer at Cardiff University, UK, who moonlights as a stand-up comedian and also writes the science comedy blog Brain Flapping for the Guardian website, e-mail drdeanburnett@gmail.com, Twitter @garwboy
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