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Damit hatte keiner gerechnet!: Die größten Mathe-Irrtümer der Menschheit
Damit hatte keiner gerechnet!: Die größten Mathe-Irrtümer der Menschheit
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Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors

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Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
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Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors

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4.11 (18,140 Ratings by Goodreads)
hardback | English
Published: 7 March, 2019

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Matt Parker, the brilliant stand-up mathematician, shows us what happens when maths goes wrong in the real world We would all be better off if everyone saw mathematics as a practical ally. Sadly, most of us fear maths and seek to avoid it. This is because mathematics doesn't have good 'people skills' - it never hesitates to bluntly point out when we are wrong. But it is only trying to help! Mathematics is a friend which can fill the gaps in what our brains can do naturally. Luckily, even though we don't like sharing our own mistakes, we love to read about what happens when maths errors make the everyday go horribly wrong. Matt Parker explores and explains near misses and mishaps with planes, bridges, the internet and big data as a way of showing us not only how important maths is, but how we can use it to our advantage. This comedy of errors is a brilliantly told series of disaster stories with a happy ending.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780241360231
ISBN10 0241360234
Number Of Pages 336
Item Weight 479 g
Product Dimensions 158 x 36 x 236 mm
Publisher / Reseller Allen Lane
Format hardback
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[Matt Parker] shows off math at its most playful and multifarious --Jordan Ellenberg, author of How to Not Be Wrong * Jordan Ellenberg *
Matt Parker is some sort of unholy fusion of a prankster, wizard and brilliant nerd--maths is rarely this clever, funny and ever so slightly naughty. * Adam Rutherford, author of Creation *

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Originally a maths teacher from Australia, Matt Parker now lives in Godalming in a house full of almost every retro video-game console ever made. He is fluent in binary and could write your name in a sequence of noughts and ones in seconds. He loves doing maths and stand-up, often simultaneously. When he's not working as the Public Engagement in Mathematics Fellow at Queen Mary University of London, he's performing in sold-out live comedy shows, spreading his love of maths via TV and radio, or converting photographs into Excel spreadsheets. He is the author of Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension.

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