Mathematics Minus Fear: How to Make Math Fun and Beneficial to Your Everyday Life - Softcover

Potter, Lawrence

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1605985171 ISBN 13: 9781605985176

Verlag: PEGASUS BOOKS, 2014

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Anyone whose memories of math class leave "the bitterest taste" will find comfort as well as insight and plenty of laughs in this informal, irreverent look at math. Each topic here is based on a situation one could encounter in everyday life. For anyone who has ever felt defeated by 'the dark forces of mathematics, ' Potter's constructive guide offers enlightenment and hope.

If you follow this eloquently written book you will be equipped to cope with all manner of challenges.

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How can math help you bet on horses or win in Vegas? What’s the foolproof way to solve Sudoku? How can probability teach you to calculate your chances of survival in Russian roulette? In this irreverent and entertaining guide to mathematics, Lawrence Potter takes the fear out of everything from long division to percentages. Using fascinating puzzles and surprising examples, from M.C. Escher to Pascal, he shows us how math is connected with the world we encounter every day, from how to calculate a tip to why weather forecasts are wrong, from winning at Monopoly to improving your mental arithmetic.Along the way you’ll also discover who invented numbers, whether animals can count, and what nuns have to do with multiplication.

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• Verlag: PEGASUS BOOKS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1605985171
• ISBN 13: 9781605985176
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 273