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The humble number Pi

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The humble number Pi
9.99 €
Our entire world is powered by math, from computer code to the equations that allow us to design skyscrapers and bridges. But math works modestly and discreetly, and we don't pay attention to it until . . . . Seemingly innocuous math mistakes can have very serious consequences. It's easy to ignore math until a small error in calculation crashes the stock market, causes an airplane to crash, or stops a warship in the middle of the ocean. Exploring and explaining all sorts of glitches, blunders, and incongruities involving the Internet, financial data, elections, lotteries, the Roman Empire, and Olympic teams, Matt Parker reveals the unthinkable ways math confounds us and proves the significance of its place in our world.
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