A well written summary of (math) mistakes

I, on purpose, placed the word Math within brackets.
It is a summary of interesting and fun mistakes that are made by the people who should be the brightest among us.
Of course, several of them already were known by me. But having these (known) anecdotes in this book, both validates that I was right to remember them but also having them be accompanied by other mistakes, will help me to retain the unknown mistakes for future discussiona.

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Fun and Educational

Rating a 9.99999473847277588 out of 10. Initially, I was worried because I had seen some of Matt Parker's videos and talks before, but the book was still totally worth reading even if a few bits here and there were repetition. Great job!

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Maths Trivia

A collection of funny stories about mathematical mistakes that led to 1528 deaths and what we can learn from them.

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Mathematical fun facts!

I really enjoyed this book, it’s even my very first audiobook. The storytelling is very entertaining and gives a lot of information in an easy and understandable way. If you like to know a few pretty cool fun (and also some rather tragic) facts surrounding math problems - you have found your book! Only thing I’m missing is all the photos and graphs mentioned, would have been nice to get them as a pdf.

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4 Leute fanden das hilfreich

Fun with maths

A fun romp through a variety of maths errors and the people who (mostly) survived them. The author reads his book with notable glee, making it a joyful listening experience.

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Good entertainment

It’s a very interesting book! I really enjoyed it. The author is really enthusiastic about it and it shows. The only downside is that now I am overly conscious every time I crossed a bridge.

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quite good.

I quite enjoyed the book. I feel like I have known about many examples and anecdotes but the book was still worth Listening too and entertaining. I'm pretty sure at least two where featured in Tom Scott videos but I might have been mistaken. I'd recommend the book to a casual reader interested in maths or a big fan of Matt. A pdf accompanying the book would have been nice.

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Dchönes Buch, leider ohne die Bilder

Die Graphen und Bilder des Buches fehlen leider etwas. Ansonsten ein sehr schönes Audiobook. Der Sprecher ist zwar unerfahren aber ok.

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Very good but a little to morbid for me

I really like the concept of the book and quite enjoyed most of the chapters. The comedic approach to mathematics managed to catch me, even though my capabilities in that subject are very little. I had to stop listening a few times to give my brain a brake since there are many numbers and digits thrown around but I imagine reading the book in paper may be easier in that regard, for those who struggle with the same thing. Now for my main point of criticism. I personally read the book in the prospects of reading something funny and entertaining, wich it mostly was. But for me there were to many errors talked about in this book wich consequences actually cost human life’s. I understand that those are fatal accidents in engineering, medicine etc. that need to be talked about, but I find that a stand up comedy book is not the right place for that. The whole book advertises itself around the concept that even giant companies like NASA make dump little errors that lead to things not working out, so the average reader with limited understanding of maths can relate and feel less uncomfortable about their own mathematical experience. I’m sure there must be more that enough of this story’s that don’t involve human casualties to fill multiple books, so the tragic story’s of this victims shouldn’t be brushed over so lightly and in such dry, grim Humor.
Overall it’s still a good read for the occasional non fiction book moments.

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Too much number reading

Great book and great presentation, had lots of laugs. Only thing to improve would be to not always read the full number, but a rounding instead

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