{"product_id":"humble-pi-matt-parker","title":"Humble Pi (Matt Parker)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e**The First Ever Maths Book to be a No.1 Bestseller**\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Wonderful ... superb' \u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat makes a bridge wobble when it's not meant to? Billions of dollars  mysteriously vanish into thin air? A building rock when its resonant  frequency matches a gym class leaping to Snap's 1990 hit \u003ci\u003eI've Got The Power\u003c\/i\u003e? The answer is maths. Or, to be precise, what happens when maths goes wrong in the real world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs  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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMathematics doesn't have good 'people skills', but  we would all be better off, he argues, if we saw it as a practical  ally. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally a maths teacher from Australia, Matt Parker is now a stand-up comedian and a YouTuber with over one hundred million views. He is the author of the #1 bestseller Humble Pi and Things to Make and Do in the Fourth\u003cbr\u003e Dimension. Matt is also frequently seen, heard, and read on the Discovery Channel, on BBC radio, and in The Guardian, in that order. He has previously held world records for both the Rubik's Cube and Space Invaders. In the pursuit of maths, Matt has: flipped a coin 10,000 times, travelled to Antarctica, memorized pi to hundreds of digits, and been bitten by a bullet ant in the Amazon rainforest. Matt has given maths lectures at Cambridge University, Oxford University, Harvard University and Lake Monger Primary School.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B-format, Englisch, 336 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65807560245597,"sku":"K080656260","price":13.8,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/8065626000001A.jpg?v=1788481256","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/humble-pi-matt-parker","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}