This international bestseller explores the fascinating ways in which seemingly innocent mathematical errors can lead to significant consequences in the real world.
From aviation disasters caused by unit conversion errors to stock market crashes from misplaced decimal points, it highlights the importance of math in everyday life.
This book is a witty and wide-ranging foray into arithmetical blunders, exploring a litany of glitches, near misses, and mathematical mishaps involving the internet, big data, elections, and more. It serves as a charming and very readable guide to some of humanity's all-time greatest miscalculations, making getting it wrong never more fun.
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This international bestseller explores the fascinating ways in which seemingly innocent mathematical errors can lead to significant consequences in the real world.
From aviation disasters caused by unit conversion errors to stock market crashes from misplaced decimal points, it highlights the importance of math in everyday life.
This book is a witty and wide-ranging foray into arithmetical blunders, exploring a litany of glitches, near misses, and mathematical mishaps involving the internet, big data, elections, and more. It serves as a charming and very readable guide to some of humanity's all-time greatest miscalculations, making getting it wrong never more fun.