Humble Pi
When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World
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Number one international best seller
An Adam Savage Book Club Pick
The book-length answer to anyone who ever put their hand up in math class and asked, "When am I ever going to use this in the real world?"
"Fun, informative, and relentlessly entertaining, Humble Pi is a charming and very readable guide to some of humanity's all-time greatest miscalculations - that also gives you permission to feel a little better about some of your own mistakes." (Ryan North, author of How to Invent Everything)
Our whole world is built on math, from the code running a website to the equations enabling the design of skyscrapers and bridges. Most of the time, this math works quietly behind the scenes...until it doesn’t. All sorts of seemingly innocuous mathematical mistakes can have significant consequences.
Math is easy to ignore until a misplaced decimal point upends the stock market, a unit conversion error causes a plane to crash, or someone divides by zero and stalls a battleship in the middle of the ocean.
Exploring and explaining a litany of glitches, near misses, and mathematical mishaps involving the internet, big data, elections, street signs, lotteries, the Roman Empire, and an Olympic team, Matt Parker uncovers the bizarre ways math trips us up, and what this reveals about its essential place in our world. Getting it wrong has never been more fun.
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"Parker is consistently very funny...highly entertaining." (The Guardian)
"Parker has a sly wit.... A clever, amusing book about some of life’s more serious problems; highly recommended." (Library Journal)
"A fascinating and deeply surprising journey into the hilarious and sometimes tragic realm of mathematical error. Brilliant." (Tim Harford, author of The Undercover Economist and Messy)
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- Cam
- 2021-06-29
Not the best format
The book itself was quite good and entertaining, but I found it frustrating how often the author would make references along the lines of "in the book I included a picture of this," "the book has the full number written out," "I put this table in the print version," etc. Many other non-fiction audiobooks I've listened to include accompanying PDFs that contain all figures. I don't know why the publisher of this didn't include one of those, because I feel like the audiobook version robs you of the full experience.
To be absolutely clear, I am not saying to not read this book - it is still worth it! But if you're the type of person who enjoys both audiobooks and print or digital versions, I'd recommend getting a copy of the latter.
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- SR
- 2020-11-15
An interesting and entertaining audiobook
The ever charming Matt Parker takes you on a light-hearted journey through some interesting facts through out the history. Any regular watchers of Matt's YouTube channel will enjoy the book immensely!
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- Aaron Tyler
- 2020-10-03
Kinda a cool at the start
Kinda cool at the start a little bit nerdy and repetitive by the end. I would only recommend this book to some serious nerds.
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- David Henry McKay
- 2023-02-22
Better than a Parker Square
As the conclusion at the end makes clear, this review of mistakes is valuable context for understanding errors, how they happen and what we can learn from trying to understand them.
Great read. Delightful as Matt always is.
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- remdog
- 2021-07-19
Great book Matt!
Loved the book! Don't stop writing. looking forward to the others you have planned.
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- Frederick Pelletier
- 2020-11-19
An awesome sens of humor!
I loved the book and the narrator, maths put simply with a touch of geek humor. that was a delight to listen to :)
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- Mike Reiter
- 2020-08-08
It might make you afraid to fly
The author goes over a whole litany of disasters, major an minor, that occurred over history because of math mistakes. He then proceeds to tell you where they went wrong. The stories are interesting and the math is presented in an easy to understand way. There are a few places in the book that he refers to the printed version because reading a long stream of numbers would make no sense but it would make sense if you saw it on the page. Those instances are few, and don't detract from the book.
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- Pierre Gauthier
- 2020-12-25
Wonderful!
Well, here is an author who claims to be a “stand-up mathematician”… and who delivers.
This book is no doubt a compendium of some of his material. It includes a slew of anecdotes pertaining to mathematical errors. Some are relative to dates, such as a Russian team arriving days late at the 1908 Olympics because it was not using the Gregorian calendar. Others involve arithmetical errors, confusion between pounds and newtons, etc. Though there is no blatant thread of thought, the result is at once entertaining and enlightening in encouraging caution.
In the audio version, the author himself does the narration, with a definite knack for storytelling and a unique partly Australian and partly British accent.
This work is recommended to all, including those who are not particularly inclined towards math.
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- Christa White
- 2020-02-22
Just like watching YouTube. Very entertaining.
Matt is a great speaker and storyteller. Interesting stories that are true make it even more of a listening experience. I'm techie enough to enjoy the in depth aspects of the events but it was not necessary to enjoy oneself.
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- Utilisateur anonyme
- 2020-02-24
Fun Listen
Had a lot of fun listening to this book. I've always enjoyed math stories and quirks. Matt Parker does a great job narrating, and his humour really shines through in the performance.
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