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How big is your vocabulary?
How heavy is your house?
Do the dead outnumber the living?
What are the best words to use in a personal ad?
We humans are a curious species, prone to think, ruminate, reflect, cogitate, mull over, and philosophize. We long to explain away the world around us, to answer all those seeming unanswerables: Why are we here? Is there a God? Is there life after death? And, above all, how many houseflies does it take to pull a car?
A confirmed and superior geek, Dr. Graham Tattersall has rescued math from the prison of the classroom and put it to use in novel and unexpected ways to explain some oft-pondered mysteries of the world. Geekspeak is an essential tool that will help you exercise your brain and solve the unsolvable, make you sound intelligent so you can impress your friends, and enable you to better understand the fascinating world in which we live in ways never possible before.
Math has a new champion, and the geeks a new king.
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Dr. Graham Tattersall is a freelance engineer working on projects as diverse as computer-aided shoe fitting, fault analysis systems for trains, and enhancement of ultrasound images. He lives in Suffolk, England.
Although whimsical in presentation, this popular-interest math book has the serious goal of encouraging independent thinking about issues in the news that have an underlying mathematical component, such as energy and sea-level rise. These hot topics are among the 26 questions Tattersall poses and then answers by plugging reasonably estimated quantities into formulas schools have spread far and wide (one hopes). Curious about how truly attracted couples are? Tattersall demonstrates that Newton’s law of gravitation reveals the answer, and for partners disappointed by the strength of the attraction, Tattersall explains how a mathematician would write the perfect lonely-hearts advertisement. If one wonders whether graveyards will fill up; or if wind power is the panacea to energy problems; or if an accident is statistically significant, Tattersall reminds his readers of the means they latently possess to figure things out for themselves rather than passively accepting experts’ pronouncements. Leavened with armchair fun, such as estimating the weight of the moon or how many flies can power a car, Tattersall’s amble might revive the fashion for pocket protectors and horn-rimmed spectacles. --Gilbert Taylor
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