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Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know Brain Shot
- Author
- John Barrow
- Narrator
- Matthew Williamson
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 2 July 2010
- Run Time
- 1 hour 15 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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'If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.' John von Neumann
Mathematics can tell you things about the world that can't be learned in any other way. This hugely informative and wonderfully entertaining Brain Shot answers a few essential questions about existence. It unravels the knotty, clarifies the conundrums and sheds light into dark corners. From winning the lottery, financial investment with Time Travellers and the weirdest football match ever to Sherlock Holmes, Elections, game theory, drunks, packing for your holiday and the madness of crowds; from chaos to infinity and everything in between, Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know has all the answers!
BRAIN SHOTS: The byte-sized guide to all the things you didn't know you didn't know...
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- Author
- John Barrow
- Narrator
- Matthew Williamson
- Duration
- 1 hour 15 minutes
- Release Date
- 2 July 2010
- ISBN
- 9781407074818
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Popular and recreational mathematics, Popular science, Mathematics, History of ideas
Synopsis
'If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.' John von NeumannMathematics can tell you things about the world that can't be learned in any other way. This hugely informative and wonderfully entertaining Brain Shot answers a few essential questions about existence. It unravels the knotty, clarifies the conundrums and sheds light into dark corners. From winning the lottery, financial investment with Time Travellers and the weirdest football match ever to Sherlock Holmes, Elections, game theory, drunks, packing for your holiday and the madness of crowds; from chaos to infinity and everything in between, Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know has all the answers!BRAIN SHOTS: The byte-sized guide to all the things you didn't know you didn't know...
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