A BETTER LIFE WITH MATHEMATICS

Why does a piano have 12 keys for each octave? Or a football 12 pentagons and 20 hexagons? And what does maths have to do with what our banknotes look like? At last, a book for everyone who always wanted to immerse themselves in the absorbing world of numbers and find out how it applies to the real world. It includes advice on how to do sums in your head and get better at estimating amounts – useful skills if you happen to be at the supermarket, or need to work out the interest when buying a house. Brefeld also includes intriguing facts and statistics about lottery numbers ...

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  • Publisher: Rowohlt Taschenbuch
  • Release: 30.05.2015
  • ISBN: 978-3-499-62898-6
  • 224 Pages
  • Author: Werner Brefeld

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Werner Brefeld

Werner Brefeld, Jahrgang 1948, studierte Physik in Münster und Bonn, wo er 1981 als Beschleuniger-Physiker promovierte. Bis 2014 hat er am Deutschen Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY) in Hamburg gearbeitet. Werner Brefeld betreibt seit 2005 im www die Website brefeld.homepage.t-online.de, wo er Mathematik im Alltag anschaulich erklärt.