John D. Barrow

100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know: Math Explains Your World (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Where else does math become a romp, full of entertaining tricks and turns?Bryce Christensen, Booklist

Have you ever considered why you always get stuck in the longest line? Why two's company but three's a crowd? Or why there are six degrees of separation instead of seven? In this hugely informative and endlessly entertaining book, John D. Barrow takes the most baffling of everyday phenomena andwith simple math, lucid explanations, and illustrationsexplains why they work the way they do. His witty, crystal-clear answers shed light on the dark and shadowy corners of the physical world we all think we understand so well.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780393072785
• Artikelnr.: 59588908

Autorenporträt

John D. Barrow is professor of mathematical sciences and director of the Millennium Mathematics Project at Cambridge University, as well as a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is the best-selling author of many books on science and mathematics, including Mathletics: 100 Amazing Things You Didn't Know about the World of Sports and 100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know: Math Explains Your World.

Rezensionen

I suspect the craft behind this fun book will only really come to light as we attempt to tell Barrow s stories to our friends. Suddenly, we will realize how much effort Barrow has expended in explaining difficult things simply. --Simon Ings