HOW LONG IS A PIECE OF STRING - Hardcover

EASTAWAY, ROB

 
9781861055057: HOW LONG IS A PIECE OF STRING
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1861055056 ISBN 13: 9781861055057
Verlag: ROBSON BOOKS, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

Why do weather forecasters get it wrong? What are the best tactics for playing "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" and "The Weakest Link"? And what is the link between a tin of baked beans and a men's urinal? These and many other questions are answered in this book. It is for anyone wanting to remind themselves - or discover for the first time - that maths is relevant to almost everything we do. Dating, cooking, travelling by car, gambling and ranking sportsmen all have links with intriguing mathematical problems that are explained in this book. It reveals the secrets behind some of the best con tricks and the hidden workings of the taxi meter, and explains how epidemics start and stop.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Rob Eastaway is the author of the best-selling What is a Googly? and Why Do Buses Come in Threes? He is also responsible for running the Coopers and Lybrand world ratings for cricket, one of sport's best-known mathematical models. Jeremy Wyndham is the managing director of a leading market research company. They both live in London.

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Verlag
ROBSON BOOKS
Erscheinungsdatum
2002
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1861055056
ISBN 13 
9781861055057
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
256
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