Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
by Matt Parker
Saturday, July 18, 2020
Really good stuff. A very entertaining look at all kinds of ways that maths get misused and abused and generally cocked up. A lot of stories that I hadn’t heard before, and the “comedy” of the title is mostly correct. There are plenty of cases where getting the misunderstanding maths is a tragedy and some of those are certainly in here but mostly this book concentrates on the amusing ones.