Processo al Pi Greco. Equivoci, disastri e altri errori matematici

Humble Pi takes us on a tour of the times when math, engineering, and programming have gone wrong, leading to disastrous or sometimes just funny results. The book covers a range of mistakes, including bridge failures, space exploration disasters, game show cheats, financial algorithms gone rogue, an Leggi tutto

Turns out that pi's not as humble as one could imagine. That many people actually did die as a result of many of the errors is tragic and definitely takes most of fun from the comedy. The unfortunate book name aside, it's a magnificent read into how maths go bump in everywhere. Q: ‘Plaintiff’s insiste Leggi tutto

A delightful, funny, and low stakes way to enjoy the world of “maths.” Chock full of errors—ranging from program bugs to engineering mishaps to faulty Excel formulas to weird rounding mistakes—in Humble Pi , Matt Parker introduces the kind of math mistakes that can afflict the hoi polloi and rankle t Leggi tutto

I really enjoyed this book! I'm one of those people who got labelled "bad at math" at a young age because I struggled with arithmetic (and still do). That resulted in my getting handed a lot of books of "math is fun!" type puzzles when I was a kid, which were definitely much more fun than math class Leggi tutto

Summary: not very interesting, and it's not about maths errors. This book is a collection of anecdotes that you can read anywhere: most of them I had read before, and you can find them on the internet, too. They're bundled by theme here, which is convenient, but the writer tries too hard to make them Leggi tutto

Knew I was going to love this book when I opened it and immediately saw the page numbers going the wrong way. It is a lot of fun the whole way through. Parker takes us through some of his favourite, or some of the more noteworthy, cases of maths going wrong across a variety of applications. We're tal Leggi tutto

I love maths. I enjoy finding out about mathematical and statistical errors. I was thinking some of my maths teacher friends might enjoy it and find it useful for illustrations in class. Thats where the plot breaks down a little. I enjoyed the book but was a little disappointed that so much was taken Leggi tutto

Ay las matemáticas. Tan cruciales y tan importantes y tan desapasionadamente que se enseñan. Por eso tanta gente les tiene miedo y por eso muchos huyen tan pronto se libran de ellas. Un libro de divulgación sobre los usos y abusos y sobre todo, los errores nimios que pueden tener consecuencias devast Leggi tutto

A Christmas present book from a relative in recognition of my past technical career. Each chapter a nugget of information about some ‘maths’ error that has caused us problems in everyday life. I put ‘maths’ in inverted commas as many of the issues may be a poor engineering implementation of some anal Leggi tutto

Matt Parker had me thoroughly enjoying this collection of situations where maths and numbers go wrong in everyday life. I think the book's title is a little weak - 'Humble Pi' doesn't really convey what it's about, but that subtitle 'a comedy of maths errors' is far more informative. With his delight Leggi tutto