Humble pi : when math goes wrong in the real world
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Riverhead Books,
New York :
2020.
- 1 of 2 Copies Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative (Show)
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About
"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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Details
- ISBN: 9780593084687
- ISBN: 0593084683
- Physical Description: 314 pages : illustrationsprint
- Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2020.
- Copyright: ©2019
- General Note: LSC 36.00Includes index.Paging is from back to front.First published as: Humble pi : a comedy of maths errors.