Geekspeak: Why Life + Mathematics = Happiness. Graham Tattersall
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GEEKSPEAK
How Life + Mathematics = Happiness
Dr Graham Tattersall
This book is written in memory of my father, who helped raise six children as well as quietly going through life inventing, analysing, and mending anything and everything.
CONTENTS
| Photograph Acknowledgements | ix |
| Introduction: Living with Numbers | 1 |
| 1. Scrabbling for Words | 5 |
| 2. Pumping Iron | 15 |
| 3. Safe as Houses | 23 |
| 4. Well Connected | 35 |
| 5. Fatal Attraction | 45 |
| 6. Home Alone | 55 |
| 7. Beam Me Up, Scotty | 65 |
| 8. Hidden Death | 77 |
| 9. It’s For You | 85 |
| 10. War Chest | 93 |
| 11. When the Wind Blows | 99 |
| 12. You’re Rubbish | 107 |
| 13. Nappy Crap | 113 |
| 14. The Cunning Fox | 119 |
| 15. Fly Wheels | 133 |
| 16. Bus Stop | 141 |
| 17. Stirring Airs | 147 |
| 18. Dream Flight | 155 |
| 19. Processing Power | 165 |
| 20. Soul Mates | 177 |
| 21. Idiot Calculus | 187 |
| 22. The Ghostly Present | 197 |
| 23. Bad Breath | 207 |
| 24. Wave Power | 215 |
| 25. Mechanical Neurosis | 221 |
| 26. The Final Judgement | 231 |
| 27. Heavenly Body | 241 |
| 28. Passing Water | 249 |
| 29. The Man in White | 259 |
| Acknowledgements | 271 |
PHOTOGRAPH
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS