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Pluses and Minuses: How Maths Solves Our Problems by Stefan Buijsman
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You look up from your phone for a moment to order an espresso. It's made with one of those large stainless-steel coffee makers that heats the water until it's precisely the right temperature. It keeps track of how fast the water warms up and uses that to calculate whether it needs to apply more or less ...Show more
Pluses and MinusesThe Use of Maths When You Never Calculate Anything by Stefan Buijsman
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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 inhabitan ...Show more
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