HUMBLE PI: A COMEDY OF MATHS ERRORS (PB)

Most of the time this maths works quietly behind the scenes, until ... it doesn't. Exploring a litany of glitches, near-misses and mishaps involving the internet, big data, elections, lotteries, and much else, Matt Parker explains the bizarre ways maths trips us up. This book shows how, by making maths our friend, we can learn from its pitfalls. It also contains puzzles, challenges, geometric socks, jokes about binary code and three deliberate mistakes. Getting it wrong has never been more fun.