100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know: Math Explains Your World
John D. Barrow (Cambridge University)
100 Essential Things You Didn’t Know You Didn’t Know: Math Explains Your World
John D. Barrow (Cambridge University)
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 and-with simple math, lucid explanations, and illustrations-explains 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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