Figuring It Out
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Figuring It Out

Entertaining Encounters with Everyday Math

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This is a book of mathematical stories - funny and puzzling mathematical stories. They tell of villains who try to steal secrets, heroes who encode their messages, and mathematicians who spend years on end searching for the best way to pile oranges.There are also stories about highway confusions occurring when the rules of Cartesian geometry are ignored, small-change errors due to ignorance of ancient paradoxes, and mistakes in calendars arising from poor numerical approximations.This book is about the power and beauty of mathematics. It shows mathematics in action, explained in a way that eve...