100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know: Math Explains Your World

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â€œWhere else does math become a romp, full of entertaining tricks and turns?â€â€•Bryce Christensen, Booklist

Have you ever considered why you always get stuck in the longest line? Why twoâ€™s company but threeâ€™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 andâ€•with simple math, lucid explanations, and illustrationsâ€•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. 40 b/w illustrations