The Modest Number Pi

Our entire world relies on mathematics — from computer code to equations that allow us to design skyscrapers and bridges. But mathematics works quietly and unnoticeably, and we don't pay attention to it until... Seemingly harmless mathematical mistakes can have... very serious consequences. It's easy to ignore mathematics until a small error in calculations crashes the stock market, causes a plane to crash, or halts a warship in the middle of the ocean. By exploring and explaining all sorts of glitches, oversights, 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 demonstrates its significance in our world.