Pros & Cons
Cons
Matt parker seems like such a genuinely nice person from his multitude of youtube videos, but i really didn't enjoy the book and abandoned it after about 60 pages or so.
Highlights
Competitiveness
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.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The auther is very interesting but has used most of this material in youtube videos which makes the book itself less interesting to read
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Well here is an author who claims to be a “standup mathematician”… and who delivers
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
This book is no doubt a compendium of some of his material
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
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
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Others involve arithmetical errors confusion between pounds and newtons etc
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Timing mistakes engineering mistakes calculational mistakes statistical mistakes unit conversion mistakes lots and lots of programmingcomputer mistakes and many more
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
This book should appeal to a general reading audience curious about how errors can creep into various technological systems and with varying consequences