Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World

by Matt Parker

The clocks going forward an hour does not have the same advantages: an hour of your life vanishes. But being a bit sleepy is not as bad as it gets; on the Monday after the clocks go forward there is a 24 percent increase in heart attacks. Daylight saving time is literally killing people.

mathematics. Between 1999 and 2009, the number of math doctorates awarded had an 87 percent correlation with the “Number of people who tripped over their own two feet and died.”

“Mathematicians aren’t people who find math easy; they’re people who enjoy how hard it is.”