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One Hundred Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know: Math Explains Your World (2009)

by John D. Barrow(Favorite Author)

3.4 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0393070077 (ISBN13: 9780393070071)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

review 1: This collection of short, essay style chapters (100 chapters in 277 pages)is great for random reading (as I have done while eating breakfast). For those with an interest in sports, there are a great many interesting sports related math items, though the sports include those which are opaque to American readers, such as Cricket. The math is not complicated, but the thinking involved does cause the reader to delve into real world issues, well beyond sports alone. This is precisely the kind of book that could turn a math-a-phobe into a more math curious student. Each chapter presents the reader with humor, questions and some clear idea of problems that can only be solved by mathematical methods.
review 2: this book was really interesting because it was all b... moreased on math explained on simple ways and contained a lot of really interesting things about our world most of the time we don't notice. It also contained some things I already knew and some others that I wouldn't consider essential but all of them were really interesting; for example: did you know that there are bicycles with squared wheels? (and they actually work) less

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