Humble Pi A Comedy of Maths Errors  -  Matt Parker (Mathematician)

KORTE INHOUD

« 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 "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 programes, finance, engineering. And most of the time this maths works quietly behind the scenes, until...it doesn't. Exploring and exp...
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2019 Uitgever: Penguin 314 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0241360196 ISBN-13: 9780241360194