That’s Maths: The Mathematical Magic in Everyday Life

Mathematics isn't just for academics and scientists, a fact meteorologist and Irish Times columnist Professor Peter Lynch proves elegantly in this wide-ranging and unconventional ode to the numbers at the heart of everyday life. With chapters on everything from the stock market to CAT scans and coin-stacking to cartography, this is an exhilarating guide to the beautiful equations and ideas that shape the world around us.