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An edition of 100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know: math explains your world (2009)

100 essential things you didn't know you didn't know

math explains your world

1st American ed.

by

  • 2 Want to read

Mathematics can reveal and illuminate things about the complex world we live in that can't be found any other way. In this informative and entertaining book, John D. Barrow takes the most perplexing of everyday phenomena--from the odds of winning the lottery and the method of determining batting averages to the shapes of roller coasters and the reasoning behind the fairest possible divorce settlements--and explains why things work the way they do. With elementary math and accompanying illustrations, he sheds light on the mysterious corners of the world we encounter every day. Have you ever considered why you always seem to 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? This clever little book has all the answers to these puzzling, everyday questions of existence that need not perplex us any more. - Publisher.

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W.W. Norton
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English

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Mathematics, Miscellanea, math, maths, Essays, Nonfiction, Science, Sports & Recreations, Mathématiques, Miscellanées
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100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know
2010, Random House Publishing Group
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2009, W.W. Norton
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Table of Contents

Two's company, three's a crowd
It's a small world after all
Monkey business
Independence Day
Rugby and relativity
Wagons roll
A sense of proportion
Why does the other queue always move faster?
Pylon of the month
A sense of balance
Bridging that gap
On the cards
Tally Ho
Relationships
Racing certainties
High jumping
Superficiality
VAT in eternity
Living in a simulation
Emergence
How to push a car
Positive feedback
The drunkard's walk
Faking it
The flaw of averages
The origami of the universe
Easy and hard problems
Is this a record?
A do-it-yourself lottery
I do not believe it!
Flash fires
The secretary problem
Fair divorce settlements : the win-win solution
Many happy returns
Verbal conjuring
Financial investment with time travelers
A thought for your pennies
Breaking the law of averages
How long are things likely to survive?
A president who preferred the triangle to the Pentagon
Secret codes in your pocket
I've got a terrible memory for names
Calculus makes you live longer
Getting in a flap
Your number's up
Double your money
Some reflections on faces
The most infamous mathematician
Roller coasters and motorway junctions
A tailor-made explosion
Walk please, don't run!
Mind-reading tricks
The planet of the deceivers
How to win the lottery
A truly weird football match
An arch problem
Counting in eights
Getting a mandate
Two-headed League
Creating something out of nothing
How to rig an election
The swing of the pendulum
A bike with square wheels
How many guards does an art gallery need?
And what about a prison?
A snooker trick shot
Brothers and sisters
Playing fair with a biased coin
The wonders of tautology
What a racket
Packing your stuff
Sent packing again
Crouching Tiger
How the leopard got his spots
The madness of crowds
Diamond geezer
The three laws of robotics
Thinking outside the box
Googling in the Caribbean : the power of the matrix
Loss aversion
The lead in your pencil
Testing spaghetti to destruction
The gherkin
Being mean with the price index
Omniscience can be a liability
White people aren't cleverer
The man from underground
There are no uninteresting numbers
Incognito
The ice skating paradox
The rule of two
Segregation and micromotives
Not going with the flow
Venn vill they ever learn
Some benefits of irrationality
Strange formulae
Chaos
All aboard
The global village

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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New York
Genre
Miscellanea.
Other Titles
One hundred essential things you didn't know you didn't know

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Dewey Decimal Class
510
Library of Congress
QA99 .B188 2009, QA99.B188 2009

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Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xiv, 284 p.
Dimensions
22 x x centimeters

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OL23043190M
Internet Archive
100essentialthin0000barr
ISBN 10
0393070077
ISBN 13
9780393070071
LCCN
2008055910
OCLC/WorldCat
286488962
Library Thing
6390408
Goodreads
6100816

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