Fun and serious error anecdotes that humanizes math

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Each chapter explores a theme of types of mathematical / programming errors from history that are usually comical but of course sometimes cause real world havoc. Curriculums typically emphasize how correct calculations / methods are supposed to look and never dive into how common errors might come about, something that should and has to be done in a lot of circumstances.

Books read on Audible by their author are almost always enchanced quite a bit by the effort and this one is no exception. Books about math usually are either inaccessible due to difficulty or embrace easiness in an overly enthusiastic and cringey fashion. That is where this book is happily an exception. I also enjoy how Matt had to use β€œMath” and not β€œMaths” in his title, take that Brits!