Matt Parker

We would all be better off if everyone saw mathematics as a practical ally. Sadly, most of us fear maths and seek to avoid it. This is because mathematics doesn't have good 'people skills' - it never hesitates to bluntly point out when we are wrong. But it is only trying to help! Mathematics is a friend which can fill the gaps in what our brains can do naturally. Luckily, even though we don't like sharing our own mistakes, we love to read about what happens when maths errors make the everyday go horribly wrong. Matt Parker explores and explains near misses and mishaps with planes, bridges, the internet and big data as a way of showing us not only how important maths is, but how we can use it to our advantage. This comedy of errors is a brilliantly told series of disaster stories with a happy ending.

A Comedy of Maths Errors

Humble Pi

Stand-up mathematician and star of Festival of the Spoken Nerd, Matt Parker presents Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension -- a riotous journey through the possibilities of numbers, with audience participation- Cut pizzas in new and fairer ways!- Fit a 2p coin through an impossibly small hole!- Make a perfect regular pentagon by knotting a piece of paper!- Tie your shoes faster than ever before, saving literally seconds of your life!- Use those extra seconds to contemplate the diminishing returns of an exclamation-point at the end of every bullet-point!- Make a working computer out of dominoes!Maths is a game. This book can be cut, drawn in, folded into shapes and will even take you to the fourth dimension. So join stand-up mathematician Matt Parker on a journey through narcissistic numbers, optimal dating algorithms, at least two different kinds of infinity and more.

Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension

Why can no two people ever see the same rainbow? What happens when you pull a pop song apart into pure sine waves and play it back on a piano? Why does the wake behind a duck always form an angle of exactly 39 degrees? And what did mathematicians have to do with the great pig stampede of 2012? The answer to each of these questions can be found in the triangle.

In Love Triangle, stand-up comedian, ex-maths teacher and Sunday Times number one bestselling author Matt Parker is on a mission to prove why we should all show a lot more love for triangles, along with the useful trigonometry and geometry they enable. To make his point, he uses triangles to create his own digital avatar, survive a harrowing motorcycle ride, cut a sandwich into three equal parts, and measure tall buildings while wearing silly shoes. But soon these hare-brained experiments begin to reveal a genuinely important truth: triangles are the hidden pattern beneath the surface of the contemporary world, used in everything from GPS to CGI via Spotify streaming, the play button and your best mate’s triangle tattoo.

Join Matt Parker as he demonstrates why there’s more to triangles than Pythagoras and SOHCAHTOA. Triangles are everything and everything is triangles.

The Life-Changing Magic of Trigonometry

Love Triangle

komedia matematycznych pomyłek

Pi razy oko

A Mathematician's Journey Through Narcissistic Numbers, Optimal Dating Algorithms, at Least Two Kinds of Infinity, and More

Matematik Kitabi

Originally published: Great Britain: Particular Books, 2014.

Bir köprü neden durduk yere yalpalar? Milyarlarca dolar nasıl buhar olup uçar? 1990’ların hit parçası “I’ve Got The Power” dinleyerek dans edenler bir binayı nasıl beşik gibi sallayabilir? Cevabı matematikte. Daha doğrusu, gerçek hayatta hesaplar tutmadığında yaşananlarda. Modern dünyamız matematik üstüne kurulu: bilgisayar programları, finans, mühendislik… Ve rakamların dünyası genellikle perde arkasında sessiz sedasız işliyor… gün gelip de işlemez olana kadar. Matematik “insanlarla iyi geçinmiyor” olabilir ama onu becerikli bir dost olarak görmediğimiz takdirde işimiz zor. Pi’si Pi’sine, bize matematikle iyi geçinerek gizli tuzaklarından nasıl ders çıkarabileceğimizi gösteriyor. Üstelik içinde çok sayıda bulmaca, bilmece, kod şakaları ve geometrik çorap var. Matematik, gerçek hayatta gerçekten de işimize yarıyor! “Matt Parker harika bir iş çıkarmış… Anlattığı hikâyeler müthiş.” Marcus Berkmann, The Daily Mail “Parker her hikâyesinde güldürüyor… çok eğlenceli.” The Guardian “Uğruna ölünen sayılar. Tam puan.” Simon Griffith, The Mail on Sunday “Tarihte ve günümüzde yapılmış sayısal hatalara dair eğlenceli ve bir o kadar şaşırtıcı bir macera.” The Big Issue “Matematiği eğlenceli hale getiren sürpriz bir çoksatar.” The Sunday Times Magazine

Pi’si Pi’sine: Gelmiş Geçmiş En Büyük Hesap Hataları

Your home is the most valuable physical possession you will ever own. It is also the only physical possession you will ever own that will truly dictate your health, your happiness, and the quality of your relationships. Using data from the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, Gallup, The National Association of Realtors, and multiple American and European scientific journals, Real Estate Smart analyzes the surprising effect your primary residence has on your person, interrelational, and financial well being. " --Back Cover.

The New Home Buying Guide

Real Estate Smart

Hoe kan een stabiele brug wiebelen? Hoe kunnen biljoenen dollars zomaar in het niets oplossen? Hoe kan het dat een sportklasje zich in de kelder van een flatgebouw op Snaps jarennegentighit ‘I’ve Got The Power’ in het zweet werkt en daarmee dat hele gebouw laat schudden? Het antwoord op die vragen is wiskunde. Of, om precies te zijn, wat er gebeurt als wiskunde misgaat. Wiskunde vormt de basis voor ons moderne leven: computerprogramma’s, het internet, banken, bouwkunde, big data, verkiezingen... Overal zitten wiskundige formules achter. En meestal werkt wiskunde stilletjes achter de schermen – totdat er fouten worden gemaakt. In Steunpilaar verkent en verklaart Matt Parker een eindeloze reeks bizarre wiskundige missers en (net-niet-) ongelukken. Het resultaat is een vrolijk en vlot geschreven boek over de stuntelende mens die met wiskunde moet omgaan; een boek dat zelfs bij de grootste wiskundeleek de liefde voor algoritmes zal doen oplaaien.

De wiskunde die onze wereld draaiende houdt

De eenzaamheid van pi

"The Crucible's Fire" paints a picture of God's steadfast love through trials as he holds one family in the loving and protective crucible of his faithfulness. Strengthen your own trust in God's refining faithfulness as you join this family through the joys and pains of raising a special needs child.

The Crucible's Fire: A Story of God's Faithfulness

So New Agents Can Succeed in the Tough Conversations

The Real Estate Agent Talks

Daniel Castro

Nicolas Burrus

Jeff Kramer

Florian Echtler

Hacking the Kinect is the technogeek’s guide to developing software and creating projects involving the groundbreaking volumetric sensor known as the Microsoft Kinect. Microsoft’s release of the Kinect in the fall of 2010 startled the technology world by providing a low-cost sensor that can detect and track body movement in three-dimensional space. The Kinect set new records for the fastest-selling gadget of all time. It has been adopted worldwide by hobbyists, robotics enthusiasts, artists, and even some entrepreneurs hoping to build business around the technology. Hacking the Kinect introduces you to programming for the Kinect. You’ll learn to set up a software environment, stream data from the Kinect, and write code to interpret that data. The progression of hands-on projects in the book leads you even deeper into an understanding of how the device functions and how you can apply it to create fun and educational projects. Who knows? You might even come up with a business idea. Provides an excellent source of fun and educational projects for a tech-savvy parent to pursue with a son or daughter Leads you progressively from making your very first connection to the Kinect through mastery of its full feature set Shows how to interpret the Kinect data stream in order to drive your own software and hardware applications, including robotics applications

Hacking the Kinect

A movie and haunting story of a girl's retreat from the world.

Karin Slaughter

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