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    That's Maths: The Mathematical Magic in Everyday Life

    By Peter Lynch

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    From atom bombs to rebounding slinkies, open your eyes to the mathematical magic in the everyday.

    Mathematics isn’t just for academics and scientists, a fact meteorologist and blogger Peter Lynch has spent the past several years proving through his Irish Times newspaper column and blog, That’s Maths.

    Here, he shows how maths is all around us, with chapters on the beautiful equations behind designing a good concert venue, predicting the stock market and modelling the atom bomb, as well as playful meditations on everything from coin-stacking to cartography. If you left school thinking maths was boring, think again!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGill Books
    Release dateOct 14, 2016
    ISBN9780717169566
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    That's Maths: The Mathematical Magic in Everyday Life
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    Peter Lynch

    Peter Lynch is Emeritus Professor of Meteorology at University College Dublin and a maths fanatic. In his retirement Peter continues his research in dynamical meteorology and expounds the awesome wonders of maths in his blog, That’s Maths, with a fortnightly column of the same name for The Irish Times.

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