**The First Ever Maths Book to be a No.1 Bestseller**'Wonderful ... superb' Daily MailWhat 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.As Matt Parker shows us...

**'Maths at its most playful and multifarious' Jordan EllenbergMatt Parker, author of the No.1 bestseller Humble Pi, takes us on a riotous journey through the possibilities of numbers**Mathematician 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 ...

Explore the life-changing magic of trigonometry with Matt Parker, stand-up mathematician and No. 1 bestselling author of Humble PiWhy 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? The answer to each of these questio...

Hoe kan een stabiele brug wiebelen? Hoe kunnen biljoenen dollars zomaar in het niets oplossen? Hoe kan het dat een sportklasje zich in de kelder van een flatgebouw op Snaps jarennegentighit 'I've Got The Power' in het zweet werkt en daarmee dat hele gebouw laat schudden? Het antwoord op die vragen is wiskunde. Of, om precies te zijn, wat er gebeurt als wiskunde misgaat. Wiskunde vormt de basis voor ons moderne leven: computerprogramma's, het internet, banken, bouwkunde, big data, verkiezin...

Particles of Joy is a memoir about growing up with a mother whose love was as fierce as her storms.Matt Parker takes us inside a childhood shaped by laughter at midnight, slammed doors, and the tender moments that glowed between the chaos. Through vivid scenes — fireworks in the driveway, whispered goodbyes, snow falling outside a hospital window — he gathers the fragments of a life lived alongside bipolar disorder, caregiving, and complicated love.What eme...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Humble Pi written and read by Matt Parker.What 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.As Matt Parker shows us, our modern lives are bui...

¿Qué hace que un puente se tambalee cuando no estaba previsto que fuera así? ¿Cómo es posible que miles de millones de euros se esfumen en un instante? ¿O que un edificio tiemble cuando una clase de gimnasia que salta al ritmo de una determinada canción iguala su frecuencia de resonancia? La respuesta a todas estas preguntas son las matemáticas. O, para ser más exactos, lo que sucede cuando las matemáticas fallan en el mundo real.Nuestras vidas están fundamentadas en las matemática...

Brought to you by Penguin.Why do mobile phones work when you're on a train? What happens when you pull a pop song apart into pure sine waves and play it back on a piano? And what did mathematicians have to do with the great pig stampede of 2012? The answer to each of these questions can be found in the triangle.Humans have been using triangles for thousands of years to build structures, measure the earth, make music, paint vanishing points, pot snooker ball...

When I sat down to write this book for my good friend, the first question I asked myself is, "What exactly is inner game?" Oh, sure, I've seen the term thrown around enough and I'm sure many people reading this have as well. But by definition, what is inner game exactly? It bothered me that I couldn't answer this question so readily. A wiki search and a dictionary search both proved pretty useless.So after a day or so of meditation, the best definition I can give is this: your inne...

Witzig und lehrreich: Eine Liebeserklärung an das Dreieck. Trigonometrie erklärt die Welt.Dreiecke sind viel mehr als nur geometrische Formen. Sie bilden die Grundlage unseres täglichen Lebens und der Zivilisation, wie wir sie kennen. Trigonometrie ist vielleicht das grundlegendste Konzept, das Menschen jemals entwickelt haben. Das einfache, aber vielseitige Dreieck ermöglicht es uns, die Welt zu kartieren, Raketen ins All zu schießen, Musik aufzunehmen und beim Bi...

Let's get one thing clear. The Internet doesn't exactly suffer from a shortage physical attraction book. There are all sorts of books out there, on Amazon and elsewhere that claim to teach guys how to become instantly magnetic.You've probably seen their covers. They show guys attracting all sorts of women. They show guys surrounded by women who have seemingly fallen in love with them.Some books focus on people on guys being able to connect in a business setting. Some are ve...

Witzig, informativ und irre unterhaltsam: Die größten Fehlkalkulationen der Menschheit! Meistens arbeitet die Mathematik in unserem Alltag unauffällig hinter den Kulissen. Bis jemand vergisst, eine ›1‹ einzutragen und eine Brücke einstürzt, ein Flugzeug vom Himmel fällt oder ein Gebäude wankt. Was passiert, wenn Mathematik in der realen Welt schiefgeht? Matt Parker erkundet und erklärt eine Reihe von Beinahe-Unfällen und Pannen und zeigt damit anschaulich und unterhaltsam, wie allgegenwärt...