100 essential things you didn't know you didn't know
Subtitle: math explains your world
By: John D. Barrow.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780393070071
Subjects: Mathematics -- Miscellanea
Genres: Miscellanea.
Other titles: One hundred essential things you didn't know you didn't know
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Two's company, three's a crowd; title: It's a small world after all; title: Monkey business; title: Independence Day; title: Rugby and relativity; title: Wagons roll; title: A sense of proportion; title: Why does the other queue always move faster?; title: Pylon of the month; title: A sense of balance; title: Bridging that gap; title: On the cards; title: Tally Ho; title: Relationships; title: Racing certainties; title: High jumping; title: Superficiality; title: VAT in eternity; title: Living in a simulation; title: Emergence; title: How to push a car; title: Positive feedback; title: The drunkard's walk; title: Faking it; title: The flaw of averages; title: The origami of the universe; title: Easy and hard problems; title: Is this a record?; title: A do-it-yourself lottery; title: I do not believe it!; title: Flash fires; title: The secretary problem; title: Fair divorce settlements : the win-win solution; title: Many happy returns; title: Verbal conjuring; title: Financial investment with time travelers; title: A thought for your pennies; title: Breaking the law of averages; title: How long are things likely to survive?; title: A president who preferred the triangle to the Pentagon; title: Secret codes in your pocket; title: I've got a terrible memory for names; title: Calculus makes you live longer; title: Getting in a flap; title: Your number's up; title: Double your money; title: Some reflections on faces; title: The most infamous mathematician; title: Roller coasters and motorway junctions; title: A tailor-made explosion; title: Walk please, don't run!; title: Mind-reading tricks; title: The planet of the deceivers; title: How to win the lottery; title: A truly weird football match; title: An arch problem; title: Counting in eights; title: Getting a mandate; title: Two-headed League; title: Creating something out of nothing; title: How to rig an election; title: The swing of the pendulum; title: A bike with square wheels; title: How many guards does an art gallery need?; title: And what about a prison?; title: A snooker trick shot; title: Brothers and sisters; title: Playing fair with a biased coin; title: The wonders of tautology; title: What a racket; title: Packing your stuff; title: Sent packing again; title: Crouching Tiger; title: How the leopard got his spots; title: The madness of crowds; title: Diamond geezer; title: The three laws of robotics; title: Thinking outside the box; title: Googling in the Caribbean : the power of the matrix; title: Loss aversion; title: The lead in your pencil; title: Testing spaghetti to destruction; title: The gherkin; title: Being mean with the price index; title: Omniscience can be a liability; title: White people aren't cleverer; title: The man from underground; title: There are no uninteresting numbers; title: Incognito; title: The ice skating paradox; title: The rule of two; title: Segregation and micromotives; title: Not going with the flow; title: Venn vill they ever learn; title: Some benefits of irrationality; title: Strange formulae; title: Chaos; title: All aboard; title: The global village