Humble Pi is the book-length answer to anyone who ever put their hand up in math class and asked, ”When am I ever going to use this in the real world?” Math is easy to ignore until a misplaced decimal point upends the stock market, a unit conversion error causes a plane to crash, or someone divides by zero and stalls a battleship in the middle of the ocean.
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 bizarre ways math trips us up, and what this reveals about its essential place in our world.
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- 5.5” W x 8.2” H x 0.9” D
- Written by Matt Parker
- Publisher: Penguin Random House
- 336 pages






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