Book description
'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 little book answers one hundred essential questions about
existence. It unravels the knotty, clarifies the conundrums and sheds
light into dark corners. From winning the lottery, placing bets at the
races and escaping from bears to sports, Shakepeare, Google, game
theory, drunks, divorce settlements and dodgy accounting; from chaos
to infinity and everything in between, 100 Essential Things You
Didn't Know You Didn't Know has all the answers!
John D. Barrow is Professor of Mathematical Sciences and Director of
the Millennium Mathematics Project at Cambridge University, Fellow of
Clare Hall, Cambridge, a Fellow of the Royal Society, and the current
Gresham Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London. His principal
area of scientific research is cosmology, and he is the author of many
highly acclaimed books about the nature and significance of modern
developments in physics, astronomy, and mathematics, including
The
Origin of the Universe
;
The Universe that Discovered Itself
;
The Book of Nothing
;
The Constants of Nature
;
The Infinite Book: a Short Guide to the Boundless, Timeless and Endless
,
The Artful Universe Expanded,
and
New Theories of Everything,
and 100
Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know
. He is also the author of the award-winning play
Infinities
.
