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The book-length answer to anyone who ever put their hand up in math class and asked, “When am I ever going to use this in the real world?”
“Fun, informative, and relentlessly entertaining, Humble Pi is a charming and very…
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1 author picked Humble Pi as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This is a fun read! The author is so playful that he even numbers the book’s pages backwards in homage to numerical mistakes. I took this book on a trip and couldn’t put it down.
It reminds me of Cautionary Tales, one of the great podcasts brought to us by Tim Harford (another author who writes and speaks about data).
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