Damaged - Matt Parker 3 Books Collection Set - Non Fiction - Paperback/Hardback - 6

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Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension\u003cbr\u003e2. Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors\u003cbr\u003e3. Love Triangle: The Life-changing Magic of Trigonometry (Hardback)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDescription:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThings to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMathematician Matt Parker uses bizarre Klein Bottles, unimaginably small pizza slices, knots no one can untie and computers built from dominoes to reveal some of the most exotic and fascinating ideas in mathematics. Starting with simple numbers and algebra, this book goes on to deal with inconceivably big numbers in more dimensions than you ever knew existed. And always with something for you to make or do along the way.\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHumble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eWhat 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've Got The Power? The answer is maths. Or, to be precise, what happens when maths goes wrong in the real world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMathematics doesn't have good 'people skills', but we would all be better off, he argues, if we saw it as a practical ally. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLove Triangle: The Life-changing Magic of Trigonometry (Hardback)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eWhy can no two people ever see the same rainbow? What happens when you pull a pop song apart into pure sine waves and play it back on a piano? Why does the wake behind a duck always form an angle of exactly 39 degrees? And what did mathematicians have to do with the great pig stampede of 2012? 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Triangles are everything and everything is triangles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e"}