Humble pi when math goes wrong in the real world
"This tour of real-world mathematical disasters reveals the importance of math in everyday life. All sorts of seemingly innocuous mathematical mistakes can have significant consequences. Exploring and explaining a litany of glitches, near misses, and mathematical mishaps involving the internet,...
| Main Author: | Parker, Matt (Mathematician) (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Riverhead Books,
2020.
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Table of Contents:
- Losing track of time
- Engineering mistakes
- Little data
- Out of shape
- You can't count on it
- Does not compute
- Probably wrong
- Put your money where your mistakes are
- A roundabout way
- Too small to notice
- Units, conventions, and why can't we all just get along?
- Stats the way I like it
- Titloay Rodanm
- Does not compute
- So, what have we learned from out mistakes?