How Long is a Piece of String?: More hidden mathematics of everyday life - Hardcover

Eastaway, Rob; Wyndham, Jeremy

 
9781911622260: How Long is a Piece of String?: More hidden mathematics of everyday life
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1911622269 ISBN 13: 9781911622260
Verlag: Portico, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

A fascinating book, from a leading maths educator and demystifier, that shows how maths is relevant to our everyday lives. 

Have you ever wondered how the meter in a taxi works? Or why a lift takes so long to respond to your call? Is there a mathematical secret to making a hit single? And how long is a piece of string? In this fascinating book you will find the answers to these and many other intriguing questions of everyday life. Discover the astonishing '37% rule' for blind dates, how to avoid the gentleman's urinal, and some extraordinary scams that people have devised to get rich quick. Here you will also find the origins of the seven-day week and the seven-note scale, an explanation of why underdogs sometimes win, some clever techniques for detecting fraud, and the reason why epidemics sweep across a nation and disappear just as quickly.

How Long is a Piece of String? is the perfect book for anyone who is curious about the way in which maths underlies so much in our everyday lives. Whatever your mathematical ability level, you will find this book informative, thought-provoking and, most of all, fun.

Word count: 35,000

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jeremy Wyndham is the managing director of a leading market research company. He lives in London.

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Verlag
Portico
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1911622269
ISBN 13 
9781911622260
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
240
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