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  100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know: Answered! (Hardback) By (author) John Barrow

  

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  Short Description for 100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't KnowAnswers one hundred essential questions about existence. From winning the lottery, placing bets at the races and escaping from bears to sports, Shakepeare, Google, game theory, drunks, divorce settlements and dodgy accounting; from chaos to infinity and everything in between, this book contains the answers.
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  • Publisher: The Bodley Head Ltd
  • Published: 16 October 2008
  • Format: Hardback 304 pages
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  • Categories: Mathematics | Science: General Issues | Popular Science
  • ISBN 13: 9781847920034 ISBN 10: 1847920039
  • Sales rank: 93,946

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Full description for 100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know

• 'If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is' - John von Neumann. Mathematics can tell you things about the world that can't be learned in any other way. This hugely informative and wonderfully entertaining little book answers one hundred essential questions about existence. It unravels the knotty, clarifies the conundrums and sheds light into dark corners. From winning the lottery, placing bets at the races and escaping from bears to sports, Shakepeare, Google, game theory, drunks, divorce settlements and dodgy accounting; from chaos to infinity and everything in between, "100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know" has all the answers!