Humble Pi

Matt Parker has pulled off something wonderful . . . his stories are superb .

Matt Parker has pulled off something wonderful . . . his stories are superb .

Parker is consistently very funny . . . highly entertaining .

Numbers to die for. Four stars.

Bought it yesterday, enjoying it enormously, well done!

I just finished the new book by irrepressible maths enthusiast @ standupmaths , and it's GREAT!

An entertaining and often alarming journey through the numerical blunders made over the years.

Very funny . . . a compendium of stories about mathematical failures; some are amusing, others alarming, as in the case of the passenger aircraft that ran out of fuel because it had been measured in the wrong units

The surprise bestseller that makes maths fun

Fun, informative, and relentlessly entertaining , Humble Pi is a charming and very readable guide to some of humanity's all-time greatest miscalculations - that also gives you permission to feel a little better about some of your own mistakes

Originally a maths teacher from Australia, Matt Parker now lives in Godalming in a house full of almost every retro video-game console ever made. He is fluent in binary and could write your name in a sequence of noughts and ones in seconds. He loves doing maths and stand-up, often simultaneously. When he's not working as the Public Engagement in Mathematics Fellow at Queen Mary University of London, he's performing in sold-out live comedy shows, spreading his love of maths via TV and radio, or converting photographs into Excel spreadsheets. He is the author of Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension .