Maths Tricks to Blow Your Mind - A Journey Through Viral Maths

What is 4% of 75? Can you calculate 60 + 60 x 0 + 1? Which is bigger, an 18-inch pizza or two 12-inch pizzas? Join award-winning maths presenter Kyle D Evans on an entertaining tour of viral maths problems that have gone wild on social media in recent years. From the infamous 'Hannah's sweets' exam question to percentages 'life-hacks', viral maths problems seem to capture the public's imagination without fail. In Maths Tricks to Blow Your Mind, Kyle presents over 50 viral maths problems with background information, explanations and solutions to similar problems, all in a humorous, accessible and inclusive manner. Want to dazzle and delight your friends and family? This book shows you how!

About the author

Kyle D Evans is an award-winning maths communicator and entertainer. He has performed at venues from Edinburgh Fringe to London Science Museum and more or less everywhere between. He is thought to be the first and only person to have had a song about the Riemann hypothesis tuned into a local radio jingle.

Summary

A gifty maths book about viral maths problems that have gone wild on social media in recent years

Foreword

A gifty maths book about viral maths problems that have gone wild on social media in recent years

Product details

• Authors: Kyle D. Evans
• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.11.2022
• EAN: 9781838958763
• ISBN: 978-1-83895-876-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 197 g
• Illustrations: Black-and-white integrated throughout
• Series: Kyle D. Evans - maths gift books
• Subjects: Guides > Hobby, home > Games, quizzes; Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); popular science, MATHEMATICS / General, Mathematics, MATHEMATICS / Recreations & Games, GAMES & ACTIVITIES / Logic & Brain Teasers, Popular and recreational mathematics, Sudoku and number puzzles