Penguin presents the audiobook model of Humble Pi written and go through by Matt Parker.

What makes a bridge wobble if it is not designed to? Billions of dollars mysteriously vanish into thin air? A building rock when its resonant frequency matches a gym class leaping to Snap’s 1990 hit I’ve Got The Power? The answer can be maths. Or, to become precise, what happens when maths will go wrong in the real world.

While Matt Parker displays us, our contemporary lives are designed on maths: computer programmes, finance, about Humble Pi: A Humor of Maths Errors engineering. & most of the time this maths functions silently behind the scenes, until … it doesn’t. Exploring and explaining a litany of glitches, near-misses and mishaps relating to the internet, big data, elections, road indicators, lotteries, the Roman empire and a hapless Olympic capturing team, Matt Parker shows us the bizarre ways maths vacations us up, and what this reveals about its essential place in our world.

Mathematics doesn’t have great ‘people skills’, but we would all end up being better off, he argues, if we saw it like a practical ally. This reserve shows how, by causing maths our friend, we are able to study from its pitfalls. In addition, it contains puzzles, issues, geometric socks, jokes about binary code and three deliberate errors. Getting it incorrect hasn’t been more pleasurable.