100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know: Math Explains Your World

<p>&quot;Where else does math become a romp, full of entertaining tricks and turns?&quot; -- Bryce Christensen, BOOKLIST </p> Have you ever considered why you always get stuck in the longest line? Why two's company but three's a crowd? Or why there are six degrees of separation instead of seven? In this hugely informative and endlessly entertaining book, John D. Barrow takes the most baffling of everyday phenomena and -- with simple math, lucid explanations, and illustrations -- explains why they work the way they do. His witty, crystal-clear answers shed light on the dark and shadowy corners of the physical world we all think we understand so well. 40 b/w illustrations