Mathematical

Life, the Universe and Everything | Douglas Adams

Bistromathics is the most powerful computational force known to parascience. A major step up from the Infinite Improbability Drive, Bistromathics is a way of understanding the behavior of numbers. Just as Einstein observed that time was not an absolute, but depended on the observer's movement through space, so it was realised that numbers are not absolute, but depend on the observer's movement in restaurants.
The first nonabsolute number is👇

vivastory the number of people for whom the table is reserved. This will vary during the course of the first three telephone calls to the restaurant, and then bear no apparent relation to the number of people who actually turn up, or to the number of people who subsequently join them after the show/match/party/gig, or to the number of people who leave when they see who else has turned up.
The second nonabsolute number is the given time of arrival, 3y

vivastory which is now known to be one of those most bizarre of mathematical concepts...The third and most mysterious piece of nonabsoluteness of all lies in the relationship between the number of items on the bill, the cost of each item, the number of people at the table and what they are each prepared to pay for. #mathematical #maycharacters @eggs @alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 3y

persephone1408 I love how hitchhikers guide is turning 42 this year... So am I 🖤 3y

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vivastory @persephone1408 I didn't even realize that. I'm 42 right now myself haha 3y

persephone1408 Yes it came out October 12 1979 3y

The_Penniless_Author @persephone1408 I turn 42 this year too! I didn't realize that about Hitchhiker's Guide. That's as good an excuse as any to reread it. 3y

Eggs Love this - perfect 👌🏼 3y

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 📚🙌🏻 3y

leah152 Oh I totally forgot about the 42 thing!! I turned 42 almost a month ago too lol 😊 3y

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Tera66

The Kiss Quotient (The Kiss Quotient, #1) | Helen Hoang

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Stella Lane is on the autism spectrum and feels more comfortable with data and numbers than with men and lovers. She wants to be as successful with "relationships" as she is with crunching numbers though. So she hires the hero to help her learn and of course we get a happy ending!

Eggs Perfect! 🧮🥰👌🏼 3y

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I‘ve got to read this!! 3y

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Kshakal

Fraction Fun | David A. Adler

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Eggs Well done! 3y

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Ast_Arslan

Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film "The Imitation Game" | Andrew Hodges

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The book abouth this #mathematical man is still in my TBR, but the movie is wonderful

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Eggs Well done 👍🏼 3y

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MayJasper

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: A Novel | Mark Haddon

Christopher Boone (narrator and protagonist) is a gifted mathematician.
#Mathematical #MayCharacters Day 24
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Eggs Love this book❣️❣️ Nicely done ✅ 3y

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jenniferw88

Help Your Kids with Maths | Carol Vorderman

Day 24: Carol Vorderman was the obvious choice for a UK Litten for #mathematical. She used to do the numbers round on the game show Countdown.

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Eggs Brilliant 🧮 👏🏻📚 3y

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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alice in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll

Many assume this book – with its pills and potions and magic mushrooms – is about drugs. But scholar Melanie Bayley suggests it owes its mind-bending quality to maths. Carroll was the pen name for mathematician Charles Dodgson, who disliked the symbolic algebra and projective geometry that were gaining favour in his day.

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Eggs

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Author Lewis Carroll was also a math teacher in Oxford, England, and mathematicians say the Alice books are full of algebraic lessons — such as why a raven is like a writing desk. 3y

Eggs Brilliant 💕📚🧮👏🏻👍🏼 3y

JazzFeathers Fascinating. 3y

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs 🙌🏻 3y

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @JazzFeathers I thought so!! 3y

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Eggs

The Final Problem | Arthur Conan Doyle

Professor James Moriarty!!

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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 3y

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Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @julesG 🥰 🧮 📚 3y

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GatheringBooks

The Genius of Islam: How Muslims Made the Modern World | Bryn Barnard

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#MayCharacters Day 24: def a number of #Mathematical characters in this nonfiction title. What broke my heart, though, is the ending, whereby much of the Arabic contribution to civilization has been systematically eradicated from history, until they were nothing but “barely a memory to all but scholars of the obscure.” My review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-ffH

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 💔🙌🏻📚 3y

Eggs Great choice 👏🏻📚🧮 3y

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