Rope Length Mystery -- Fun Math Bestselling Translation Series

Author: (British) Eastway (Eastway, R.), (British) Wyndham (Wyndham, J.)
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Publishing Date: 2004-12-01
Features: How are taxi fares calculated? Why does the elevator slow down and come late after pressing the button? What is the optimal strategy when participating in the TV show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire"? Is there mathematical logic behind creating popular songs? How long is a piece of rope? For these questions and many other intellectual puzzles in daily life, you will find the answers in this book, which is a sequel to the bestseller "The Mystery of Three Cars Arriving Together." The book also includes fascinating chapters, such as the 37% rule for finding a life partner during blind dates, men's privacy-seeking behavior when using the restroom, various cunning schemes for quick wealth, the origin and folklore of a week having seven days and a musical interval having seven notes, explanations for upsets in sports competitions where dark horses win, anti-counterfeiting techniques for discovering fake products, and the many reasons why epidemics can rapidly sweep through a country and then disappear just as quickly. The influence of mathematics on people's daily lives is profound and far-reaching. To understand it in detail, you must read this extraordinary book, "The Mystery of the Length of a Rope." Whether you have a strong or weak foundation in mathematics, or high or low mathematical ability, you will find it to be a highly enjoyable and satisfying read: rich in content, engaging, and utterly fascinating.