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Title: Why Do Buses Come in Threes? by Rob Eastaway, Jeremy Wyndham ISBN: 0-471-37907-7 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 25 February, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Superb book for non mathemeticians
Comment: This book is a superb sampler of interesting aspects of math. I found it very similiar to "A mathemetician reads the newspaper" by Paulos (also a great book). People who like Paulos will like this book a lot.
Parts that I particularly loved were the coverage of sections not treated in other, similiar texts. How fast to run in the rain to stay the driest, how to cut oddly shaped cakes into equal parts, etc.
Parts that I found the least exciting were the re-treatments of the stuff of standard layman's math books- does the world need another description of the travelling salesman problem, or Fibonacci sequences throughout nature? (though these descriptions are better than most that Ive read)
Overall, this book was very enjoyable. If you've read no "math and the world books" you will think it is 5 stars, and if you've read many of them you will think 4 stars (or just skip those chapters)
Rating: 3
Summary: Good idea, but not well executed.
Comment: When I saw this book, I thought it was a great idea for a book. I bought it without even opening it or reading the back cover!
However, the book fell short of my expectations. Some of the topics covered didn't warrant inclusion, and some of the topics could have been covered in much more detail. (Also, a minor nit is that some British words used would not be known to the average American reader, although most of the Britishisms would be.)
It is worth reading, however, if you think that you would enjoy it based on the subtitle, "the hidden mathematics of everyday life". It touches on a great number of topics, and has a good balance of hand-waving and formulas.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great picture of the diversity of mathematics!
Comment: This book contains a great mixture of examples of applications of math to different areas. My favorites was learning why coins that are not round have an odd number of edges! Their example is the British 50 pence piece, which has seven rounded sides.
I think this book gives a great introduction to what mathematics is all about, and will be of interest to both mathematicians and non-mathematicians. Just read it!
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Title: Conned Again, Watson! Cautionary Tales of Logic, Math, and Probability by Colin Bruce ISBN: 0738205893 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: 15 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper by John Allen Paulos ISBN: 038548254X Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 March, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists by Joel Best ISBN: 0520219783 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 07 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Fractals, Googols and Other Mathematical Tales by Theoni Pappas ISBN: 0933174896 Publisher: Wide World Pub Tetra Pub. Date: March, 1993 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: What Are the Chances: Voodoo Deaths, Office Gossip, and Other Adventures in Probability by Bart K. Holland ISBN: 0801869412 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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