Humble Pi When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World

Matt Parker

eAudio - 2020

#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER AN ADAM SAVAGE BOOK CLUB PICKThe 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?” “Fun, informative, and relentlessly entertaining, Humble Pi is a charming and very readable guide to some of humanity's all-time greatest miscalculations—that also gives you permission to feel a little better about some of your own mistakes.” —Ryan North, author of How to Invent Everything 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 inn...ocuous mathematical mistakes can have significant consequences. Math is easy to ignore until a misplaced decimal point upends the stock...

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Language
English
Main Author
Matt Parker
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File Size275 GB
ISBN9780593166871
Release Date1/21/2020