EAN: 9780241505700

LOVE TRIANGLE - MATT PARKER KARTONIERT (TB)

Explore the life-changing magic of trigonometry with Matt Parker  stand-up mathematician and
no. 1 bestselling author of Humble Pi Why can no two people ever see the same rainbow? What
happens when you pull a pop song apart into pure sine waves and play it back on a piano? Why
does the wake behind a duck always form an angle of exactly 39 degrees? And what did
mathematicians have to do with the great pig stampede of 2012? The answer to each of these
questions can be found in the triangle. In Love Triangle  stand-up comedian  ex-maths teacher
and Sunday Times number one bestselling author Matt Parker is on a mission to prove why we
should all show a lot more love for triangles  along with the useful trigonometry and geometry
they enable. To make his point  he uses triangles to create his own digital avatar  survive a
harrowing motorcycle ride  cut a sandwich into three equal parts  and measure tall buildings
while wearing silly shoes. But soon these hare-brained experiments begin to reveal a genuinely
important truth: triangles are the hidden pattern beneath the surface of the contemporary world
used in everything from GPS to CGI via Spotify streaming  the play button and your best mate's
triangle tattoo. Join Matt Parker as he demonstrates why there's more to triangles than
Pythagoras and SOHCAHTOA. Triangles are everything and everything is triangles.

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