100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know: Math Explains Your World, Paperback

Descriere

Have you ever considered why you always get stuck in the longest line? Why two's company but three's a crowd? Or why there are six degrees of separation instead of seven? In this hugely informative and endlessly entertaining book, John D. Barrow takes the most baffling of everyday phenomena and--with simple math, lucid explanations, and illustrations--explains why they work the way they do. His witty, crystal-clear answers shed light on the dark and shadowy corners of the physical world we all think we understand so well.

Despre autor

John Barrow

fizician și matematician britanic (1952-2020)

John David Barrow a fost un cosmolog, fizician teoretician și matematician englez. A îndeplinit funcția de profesor Gresham de geometrie la Gresham College din 2008 până în 2011. Barrow a fost, de asemenea, autor de lucrări de popularizare a științei și dramaturg amator.