Formulas for all occasions: how mathematics helps to get out of difficult situations. Woering K. 79176

Imagine you are in a falling plane. Without panic! From the sari your neighbor, you can make a parachute and stay alive, you only need to correctly calculate the area of ​​the material. This is just one example of how knowledge of the desired formula can be useful to us in the most unexpected situations. There are many of these in the piggy bank of British mathematician, because he, like no other, can simply and with humor explain complex things. Woering wrote this book to talk about the charms and benefits of equations on the example of household and extraordinary events - from calculating the optimal scheme to protect one of the Louvre masterpieces to the salvation of mankind during the energy crisis. Even if you did not like mathematics at school, read this book to love the formulas and learn to apply them in life.