Edition |
1st Harper Perennial ed. |
Description |
x, 239 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
Note |
Originally published: London : Fourth Estate, 2007. |
Contents |
Scrabbling for words -- Pumping iron -- Safe as houses -- Well connected -- Fatal attraction -- Home alone -- Beam me up, Scotty -- Hidden death -- It's for you -- War chest -- When the wind blows --You're rubbish -- The cunning fox -- Fly wheel |
Summary |
Graham Tattersall uses his math skills to identify solutions to some of life's great questions, and deciphers the depth of someone's vocabulary, the weight of a house, whether the dead outnumber the living, the best words to use in a personal ad |
Subject |
Mathematics -- Popular works.
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Added Title |
Geek speak |
ISBN |
9780061626784 (pbk.) |
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0061626783 (pbk.) |
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