This is certainly the first
book I have ever read in which page numbers start from higher to lowest. And it
has been done to justify the title (a comedy of maths errors). The book is
filled with informative and relentlessly entertaining matter right from the
beginning and has illustrations that are related to real-time incidents. The
author explores the series of glitches, near-misses, mathematical mishaps
leading to severe bugs over the PCs or internet, chunks in big data, logic in
street signs, the chances over winning lotteries and bizarre ways the maths can
equip or trip us. The book is well organized so that similar themes are framed
together into chapters, but each incident is only a few pages long so that it
never gives a feeling of bogged down or boring.
