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Pros
Humble pi is a ramble through a series of stories of weird happenings, mishaps and disasters relating mainly to computing. The maths referenced in the book isn't overly complicated.
Really enjoyed this book, interesting and entertaining. Each chapter is about a different type of mistake. But on the contrary, book explains very thoroughly.
Matt parker is both a mathematician and a comedian. Humble pi shows how maths underpins so much of our modern world. Parker writes with flair and real wit, with the odd laugh-out-loud one-liner, too.
Cons
The “story telling” is really shallow and often each anecdotal “mistake’ comes to an abrupt end. Why is 3 halfway between 1 and 10?
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Parker writes with flair and real wit with the odd laughoutloud oneliner too
A lot of esoteric and interesting trivia mixed with the background reasons why these things occurred
Something presumably went a little awry with the layout
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- This product had a total of 3,097 reviews as of our last analysis date on Dec 13 2022.
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If you wish to get the giststyle check out his channels
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So its not really maths failures per se in most cases but applied maths used loosely where the applier is just as culpable often more as the mathematical solution they are trying to apply
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Its not very mathsy though so if you expect hilarious mistakes in formulae this book is not for you
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Unfortunately on my ereader many of the diagrams did not display well
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I think this would be a difficult read for most people for example i wouldnt recommend it to those members of our book group without higher level maths knowledge as much of it would be incomprehensible
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I read it when i had enough of screen time mostly at bed time
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I have it on kindle and can’t see all the diagrams clearly but i got the general idea
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Perhaps the next edition will add in the latest blunder caused by using excel as a database
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