Humble pi : when math goes wrong in the real world / Matt Parker.
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TextPublisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2020Copyright date: �2019Description: 314 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780593084687
- 0593084683
- Humble pie
- 510 23
- QA93 .P37275 2020
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"First published in Great Britain as: Humble pi: a comedy of maths errors by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Random House Uk, 2019"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"This tour of real-world mathematical disasters reveals the importance of math in everyday life. All sorts of seemingly innocuous mathematical mistakes can have significant consequences. 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 ways math trips us up"--Provided by publisher.
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