Beautiful Mathematics

How can a figure have more than one but less than two sides? Is it possible that a highly precise medical test might be more likely to draw erroneous conclusions? How can you tell if your accountant is lying if you can only see the first digit of your sales data? … Mathematics is everywhere in our lives, real, interesting and wonderful. When you start to observe the world from a mathematical perspective, life may become simpler and more certain. Are you ready? Edward Scheinerman, the namer of "Scheinerman's Theorem" and a well-known mathematician and educator, will help us discover and answer interesting mathematical problems around us in this book, and lead us into the brave new world of numbers, graphics and uncertainty.