It takes the average reader 4 hours and 15 minutes to read Around the World in Eighty Games by Marcus du Sautoy
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
An award-winning mathematician explores the math behind the games we love and why we love to play them Where should you move first in Connect 4? What is the best property in Monopoly? And how can pi help you win rock paper scissors? Spanning millennia, oceans and continents, countries and cultures, Around the World in Eighty Games gleefully explores how mathematics and games have always been deeply intertwined. Renowned mathematician Marcus du Sautoy investigates how games provided the first opportunities for deep mathematical insight into the world, how understanding math can help us play games better, and how both math and games are integral to human psychology and culture. For as long as there have been people, there have been games, and for nearly as long, we have been exploring and discovering mathematics. A grand adventure, Around the World in Eighty Games teaches us not just how games are won, but how they, and their math, shape who we are.
Around the World in Eighty Games by Marcus du Sautoy is 248 pages long, and a total of 63,984 words.
This makes it 84% the length of the average book. It also has 78% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 49 minutes to read Around the World in Eighty Games aloud.
Around the World in Eighty Games is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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