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What's the Use?: How Mathematics Shapes Everyday Life

By Ian Stewart
Narrated by: Quentin Cooper
Unabridged — 9 hours, 6 minutes
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By Ian Stewart
Narrated by: Quentin Cooper
Unabridged — 9 hours, 6 minutes

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See the world in a completely new way as an esteemed mathematician shows how math powers the world-from technology to health care and beyond.
Almost all of us have sat in a math class, wondering when we'd ever need to know how to find the roots of a polynomial or graph imaginary numbers. And in one sense, we were right: if we needed to, we'd use a computer. But as Ian Stewart argues in What's the Use?, math isn't just about boring computations. Rather, it offers us new and profound insights...