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100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know : Math Explains Your World
Overview
Have you ever considered why you always get stuck in the longest line? Why two's company but three's a crowd? Or why there are six degrees of separation instead of seven? In this hugely informative and endlessly entertaining book, John D. Barrow takes the most baffling of everyday phenomena and--with simple math, lucid explanations, and illustrations--explains why they work the way they do. His witty, crystal-clear answers shed light on the dark and shadowy corners of the physical world we all think we understand so well.
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- ISBN-13: 9780393338676
- ISBN-10: 0393338673
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Publish Date: May 2010
- Dimensions: 8.16 x 5.56 x 0.73 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.55 pounds
- Page Count: 304
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