Humble Pi

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A Comedy of Maths Errors

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Matt Parker

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"Fun math book to read"

Review by Q on 25th November, 2021

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Got it for my book club, having a hard time reading lots of it at once but nonetheless still a very valuable book with different math mistakes and insights. Highly recommended to anyone who likes math, but also who are curious about math mistakes that are made in the real world which could have big or small consequences. Made fun with good humor.

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The first ever maths book to be a No.1 Bestseller shows us what happens when maths goes wrong in the real world What makes a bridge wobble when it's not meant to? How do billions of dollars mysteriously vanish into thin air? How does a building rock when its resonant frequency matches a gym class leaping to Snap's 1990 hit I've Got The Power? The answer is maths. Or, to be precise, what happens when maths goes wrong in the real world. As Matt Parker shows us, our modern lives are built on maths- computer programmes, finance, engineering. And most of the time this maths works quietly behind the scenes, until ... it doesn't. Exploring and explaining a litany of glitches, near-misses and mishaps involving the internet, big data, elections, street signs, lotteries, the Roman empire and a hapless Olympic shooting team, Matt Parker shows us the bizarre ways maths trips us up, and what this reveals about its essential place in our world. This book shows how, by making maths our friend, we can learn from its pitfalls. It also contains puzzles, challenges, geometric socks, jokes about binary code and three deliberate mistakes. Getting it wrong has never been more fun.

Author Biography:

Originally a maths teacher from Australia, Matt Parker now lives in Godalming in a house full of almost every retro video-game console ever made. He is fluent in binary and could write your name in a sequence of noughts and ones in seconds. He loves doing maths and stand-up, often simultaneously. When he's not working as the Public Engagement in Mathematics Fellow at Queen Mary University of London, he's performing in sold-out live comedy shows, spreading his love of maths via TV and radio, or converting photographs into Excel spreadsheets. He is the author of Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension.

Release date Australia

March 5th, 2020

Author

Matt Parker

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Pages

336

Dimensions

129x198x19

ISBN-13

9780141989143

Product ID

30820520

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