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**The First Ever Maths Book to be a No.1 Bestseller**
'Wonderful ... superb' Daily Mail
What makes a bridge wobble when it's not meant to? Billions of dollars mysteriously vanish into thin air? 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.
Mathematics doesn't have good 'people skills', but we would all be better off, he argues, if we saw it as a practical ally. 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.
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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.
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Zustand: Very Good. : En 'Humble Pi: Una comedia de errores matemáticos', Matt Parker nos muestra de manera entretenida y accesible cómo las matemáticas, a pesar de su precisión, pueden ser fuente de errores hilarantes y desastrosos en el mundo real. Desde fallos en puentes y aviones hasta problemas en internet y con el big data, Parker explora una serie de percances que revelan la importancia de las matemáticas en nuestra vida cotidiana y cómo podemos utilizarlas a nuestro favor. Este libro es una lectura fascinante y divertida que demuestra que incluso los errores matemáticos pueden ser una fuente de aprendizaje y entretenimiento. EAN: 9780241360231 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Ciencias Título: Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors Autor: Matt Parker Editorial: Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, London Idioma: en Páginas: 336 Formato: tapa dura. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers Happ-2026-11-05-314c646d
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