Amina Mouhamed

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maths and humans go about things. The human brain is an amazing calculation device, but we have evolved to make judgement calls and to estimate outcomes. We are approximation machines. Maths, however, can get straight to the correct answer. It can tease out the exact point where things flip from being right to being wrong; from being correct
Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
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