Humble pi : when math goes wrong in the real world
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Humble pi : when math goes wrong in the real world
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- Humble pi : when math goes wrong in the real world
- Title remainder
- when math goes wrong in the real world
- Statement of responsibility
- Matt Parker
- Title variation
- Humble pie
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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"--
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- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- QA93
- LC item number
- .P37275 2020
- Literary form
- non fiction
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