The Modest Number Pi

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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.

Author: ПАРКЕР М.

Printhouse: AST

Series: Simply about the unusual and complex

Age restrictions: 16+

Year of publication: 2022

ISBN: 9785171509446

Number of pages: 336

Size: 84x108/32 mm

Cover type: Твердая бумажная

Weight: 324 g

ID: 1295376

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.

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