Pluses and Minuses | Stefan Buijsman

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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/57712 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pluses and Minuses Author: Stefan Buijsman Narrator: Gavin Osborn Format: mp3 Length: 5 hrs and 1 min Release date: 06-11-20 Ratings: Not rated yet Genres: Mathematics Publisher's Summary: What is the relationship between the number of films Nicolas Cage appears in and the number of deaths by drowning in swimming pools? How in 1850s London did John Snow calculate the relationship between the city's water suppliers and the number of deaths from cholera? Thousands of years ago the inhabitants of Mesopotamia became the first to use numbers. Since then, mathematics has been unstoppable. It's behind almost everything, from search-engines to cruise-control, from coffee-makers to timetables. But how relevant is mathematics to everyday life?

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