- Published: 17 March 2020
- ISBN: 9780141989143
- Imprint: Penguin Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 336
- RRP: $24.99
Humble Pi
A Comedy of Maths Errors
- Published: 17 March 2020
- ISBN: 9780141989143
- Imprint: Penguin Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 336
- RRP: $24.99
Numbers to die for. Four stars.
Simon Griffith, Mail on Sunday
Matt Parker has pulled off something wonderful . . . his stories are superb.
Marcus Berkmann, The Daily Mail
Bought it yesterday, enjoying it enormously, well done!
Dara Ó Briain, Twitter
I just finished the new book by irrepressible maths enthusiast @standupmaths, and it's GREAT!
Adam Savage, ex-host of 'Mythbusters', Twitter
An entertaining and often alarming journey through the numerical blunders made over the years.
The Big Issue
Parker is consistently very funny . . . highly entertaining.
The Guardian
Very funny. . . a compendium of stories about mathematical failures; some are amusing, others alarming, as in the case of the passenger aircraft that ran out of fuel because it had been measured in the wrong units
Telegraph Books of the Year
The surprise bestseller that makes maths fun
Sunday Times Magazine
Fun, informative, and relentlessly entertaining, Humble Pi is a charming and very readable guide to some of humanity's all-time greatest miscalculations - that also gives you permission to feel a little better about some of your own mistakes
Ryan North, author of How to Invent Everything