WHY DO BUSES COME IN THREES? - Softcover

Rob Eastaway; Jeremy Wyndham

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1861052472 ISBN 13: 9781861052476

Publisher: Robson Books Ltd, 1999

Synopsis

Why is it better to buy a lottery ticket on a Thursday? Why are showers always too hot or too cold? These and many other questions are answered in this entertaining and highly informative book. It is for anyone wanting to discover that maths is relevant to almost everything.

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Why Do Buses Come In Threes?

Review:

If you've ever bought a Lottery ticket and wondered about your bad luck afterwards, you've had to deal with math. From timing to probability, it pervades our every waking moment, and even the most crippling maths-phobia can't make it go away. Writers Rob Eastaway and Jeremy Wyndham throw up their hands in defeat and give in to the amusing, interesting and practical aspects of math in Why Do Buses Come in Threes?. Taking their title from the oft-noticed phenomenon of clumping in mass transit, they explain in clear, common-sense language why this must be so. At the end of their description, you might be left with the uneasy sense that you just learned some maths and on a quick review, you'll find that the authors have in fact snuck some in under your radar. In chapter after chapter, Eastaway and Wyndham successfully navigate statistics, codes, coincidences and many other parts of our lives, peeling away the surface to show what's really going on to make our lives so weird and wonderful. Diagrams and drawings help to make their points even clearer and there are almost never any scary formulae to frighten the timid. If you've been waiting your whole life to learn the Ham Sandwich Theorem, or just want to put some old fears to rest, Why Do Buses Come in Threes? is the solution. --Rob Lightner, Amazon.com

About this edition

• Publisher: Robson Books Ltd
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1861052472
• ISBN 13: 9781861052476
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 164