John D. Barrow
One Hundred Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know
Softcover
Spotlights a range of real-world phenomena—from the odds of winning the lottery to the shapes of roller coasters to the reasoning behind the fairest divorce settlements—and uses basic math to make them clearer.
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John D. Barrow
John D. Barrow is Professor of Mathematical Sciences and Director of the Millennium Mathematics Project at Cambridge University, Gresham Professor of Astronomy and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He has lectured at 10 Downing Street, Windsor Castle, the Vatican and to the general public. Barrow is the author of many highly acclaimed books about modern developments in physics, astronomy and mathematics, including New Theories of Everything, Pi in the Sky: Counting, Thinking, and Being, Impossibility: The Limits of Science and the Science of Limits, The Constants of Nature: From Alpha to Omega, The Artful Universe Expanded and The Infinite Book: A Short Guide to the Boundless, Timeless and Endless. He is also the author of the award-winning play Infinities.
