pickAs a mathematician I found this fascinating, Matt Parker is very personable and this comes across well in his writing. He takes some very tricky mathematical, computing or engineering concepts and works hard to make them accessible and funny!
so-soDespite the title, the book is as much or more about engineering or programming as it is about maths. For me, a lot of the anecdotes didn't really strike the right balance between too much detail and enough detail so that the reader understood what should have happened and what went wrong. The main take away was that people are inevitably going to make mistakes so systems need to be better designed to catch them before they turn into disasters.
pickAnecdotes about mathematical errors, from the inconsequential to the horrifying. The less consequential bits are served with a generous dose of self-aware humor, while the grimmer stories are used to argue for building more failure-resistant systems. It's accessible, entertaining, and thought-provoking, and I'll read more Parker.
Does anyone else work in Quality Control?! Sometimes your cheese holes line up. 🧀 🤷♀️
My current read is very interesting and Matt Parker does a great job of taking the math out of the math talk. Every few pages are packed with real world examples of humans mistakenly applying math (or maybe math getting the last laugh?). Fun read. I‘ll pick it up later though because Teddy needs the lumbar support for right now. #catcuddles
panI was on the fence between so-so and pan. This book wasn't what I expected at all. While there were some amusing anecdotes and tales of math (or maths as the narrator said) gone wrong, a lot of it is like listening to a math text book read out loud. Mathematics equations and computer coding that left my brain numb. 2 💥💥
A great title for a book, and it is on my TBR.
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