Matthew Parker is an author, stand-up comedian, science communicator and former mathematics teacher. He is a frequent guest on the Numberphile podcasts and Numberphile YouTube videos. In his recent book, Humble Pi – When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World, Parker explores mistakes made by humans and systems. He reviews many tragic mistakes, such as medical deaths, airplane accidents and rocket failures, resulted from simple errors such as decimal point errors, typos, mistaken units of measure. Also explained are common computing errors. I liked his chapter dedicated to the difficulty to producing random numbers and the various mechanical and numerical methods of doing so.
Book site: Humble Pi by Matt Parker: 9780593084694 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
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