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GIVEAWAY 🎉 Humble Pi by Matt Parker Behind The Scenes
Pi Day Special! Humble Pi from Matt Parker, standupmaths is out now: https://amzn.to/2O0LQ0h The full video on Matt's channel StandUpMaths: https://youtu.be/S26_O2B8h8k Thank you to the volunteers and The Royal Institution. Check out the fantastic chalkdust magazine: https://ift.tt/1EO089q For a chance to win a signed copy of Humble Pi, subscribe to our channel and leave a comment below (with your Twitter or instagram handle). The giveaway will run for two weeks and end on the 27th March. The winner will be notified by direct message. T&Cs: https://ift.tt/2J9lWZy What 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 I've Got The Power? The answer is maths. Or, to be precise, what happens when maths goes wrong in the real world. As 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. Mathematics 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe to the Penguin channel: https://ift.tt/2ygTzig Follow us here: Twitter | http://www.twitter.com/penguinukbooks Website | https://ift.tt/xNmtGX Instagram | https://ift.tt/2ygyyo2 Facebook | https://ift.tt/2wmBKky

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