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What's the Use?: How Mathematics Shapes Everyday Life

By Ian Stewart

Book information

Publisher
Basic Books
Year
2021
ISBN
1541699483, 9781541699489
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
9 MB (9094212 bytes)
Pages
320\0
Time added
2022-09-25 12:26:41

Description

An esteemed mathematician shows how, from technology to health care and beyond, math powers the world. Almost all of us have sat in a math class, wondering when we'd ever need to know how to find the roots of a polynomial or graph imaginary numbers. And in one sense, we were right: if we needed to, we'd use a computer. But as Ian Stewart argues in What's the Use?, math isn't just about boring computations. Rather, it offers us new and profound insights into our world, allowing us to accomplish feats as significant as space exploration and organ donation. From the trigonometry that keeps a satellite in orbit to the prime numbers used by the world's most advanced security systems to the imaginary numbers that enable augmented reality, math isn't just relevant to our lives. It is the very fabric of our existence.

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