Humble Pi av Matt Parker

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<p><b>**The First Ever Maths Book to be a No.1 Bestseller**<br></b><b>''Wonderful ... superb'' <i>Daily Mail</i></b><br><br>What makes a bridge wobble when it''s not meant to? Billions of dollars mysteriously vanish into thin air? A building rock when its resonant frequency matches a gym class leaping to Snap''s 1990 hit <i>I''ve Got The Power</i>? The answer is maths. Or, to be precise, what happens when maths goes wrong in the real world.<br><br>As Matt Parker shows us, our modern lives are built on maths: computer programmes, finance, engineering. And most of the time this maths works quietly behind the scenes, until ... it doesn''t. Exploring and explaining a litany of glitches, near-misses and mishaps involving the internet, big data, elections, street signs, lotteries, the Roman empire and a hapless Olympic shooting team, Matt Parker shows us the bizarre ways maths trips us up, and what this reveals about its essential place in our world.<br><br>Mathematics doesn''t have good ''p