TY  - BOOK
AU  - Parker, Matt 
TI  - Humble Pi: : a comedy of maths errors
SN  - 9780141989143    
U1  - 510.2  
PY  - 2019///
CY  - London	
PB  - Penguin Books	
KW  - Mathematics Humor	
KW  - Maths: Computer Programmes	
KW  - Finance
N1  - https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/300640/humble-pi-by-parker-matt/9780141989143
N2  - As Matt Parker shows us, our modern lives are built on maths: computer programmes, finance, engineering. And most of the time this maths works quietly behind the scenes, until ... it doesn't. Exploring and explaining a litany of glitches, near-misses and mishaps involving the internet, big data, elections, street signs, lotteries, the Roman empire and a hapless Olympic shooting team, Matt Parker shows us the bizarre ways maths trips us up, and what this reveals about its essential place in our world. This book shows how, by making maths our friend, we can learn from its pitfalls. It also contains puzzles, challenges, geometric socks, jokes about binary code and three deliberate mistakes. Getting it wrong has never been more fun
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