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#1 International Bestseller
AN ADAM SAVAGE BOOK CLUB PICK
This entertaining tour of real-world mathematical disasters reveals the importance of math in our everyday lives
Our whole world is built on math, from the code running a website to the equations enabling the design of skyscrapers and bridges. Most of the time this math works quietly behind the scenes…until it doesn't. All sorts of seemingly innocuous mathematical mistakes can have significant consequences.
Humble Pi is the book-length answer to anyone who ever put their hand up
in math class and asked, "When am I ever going to use this in the real world?" Math is easy to ignore until a misplaced decimal point upends the stock market, a unit conversion error causes a plane to crash, or someone divides by zero and stalls a battleship in the middle of the ocean.
Exploring and explaining a litany of glitches, near-misses and mathematical mishaps involving the internet, big data, elections, street signs, lotteries, the Roman Empire, and an Olympic team, Matt Parker uncovers the bizarre ways
math trips us up, and what this reveals about its essential place in our world. Getting it wrong has never been more fun.
AN ADAM SAVAGE BOOK CLUB PICK
This entertaining tour of real-world mathematical disasters reveals the importance of math in our everyday lives
Our whole world is built on math, from the code running a website to the equations enabling the design of skyscrapers and bridges. Most of the time this math works quietly behind the scenes…until it doesn't. All sorts of seemingly innocuous mathematical mistakes can have significant consequences.
Humble Pi is the book-length answer to anyone who ever put their hand up
in math class and asked, "When am I ever going to use this in the real world?" Math is easy to ignore until a misplaced decimal point upends the stock market, a unit conversion error causes a plane to crash, or someone divides by zero and stalls a battleship in the middle of the ocean.
Exploring and explaining a litany of glitches, near-misses and mathematical mishaps involving the internet, big data, elections, street signs, lotteries, the Roman Empire, and an Olympic team, Matt Parker uncovers the bizarre ways
math trips us up, and what this reveals about its essential place in our world. Getting it wrong has never been more fun.
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#1 International BestsellerAN ADAM SAVAGE BOOK CLUB PICKThis entertaining tour of real-world mathematical disasters reveals the importance of math in our everyday livesOur whole world is built on math...
Specificaties
Auteur
Matt Parker
Uitgever
Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V.
Taal
Engels
Aantal pagina's
336
Formaat
Paperback
Publicatiedatum
19 januari 2021
ISBN
9780593084694
Hoogte
209 mm cm
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