Our entire world is built on mathematics – from computer code to equations that allow the design of skyscrapers and bridges. But mathematics works humbly and unnoticed, and we don't pay attention to it until... Seemingly harmless mathematical errors can...
have very serious consequences. It's easy to ignore mathematics until a small error in calculations crashes the stock market, causes an airplane to crash, or halts a warship in the middle of the ocean. By exploring and explaining all kinds of glitches, blunders, and inconsistencies related to the internet, financial data, elections, lotteries, the Roman Empire, and Olympic teams, Matt Parker reveals unimaginable ways in which mathematics confounds us and proves its significance in our world.
Our entire world is built on mathematics – from computer code to equations that allow the design of skyscrapers and bridges. But mathematics works humbly and unnoticed, and we don't pay attention to it until... Seemingly harmless mathematical errors can have very serious consequences. It's easy to ignore mathematics until a small error in calculations crashes the stock market, causes an airplane to crash, or halts a warship in the middle of the ocean. By exploring and explaining all kinds of glitches, blunders, and inconsistencies related to the internet, financial data, elections, lotteries, the Roman Empire, and Olympic teams, Matt Parker reveals unimaginable ways in which mathematics confounds us and proves its significance in our world.
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