It takes the average reader 5 hours and 2 minutes to read Math Goes to the Movies by Burkard Polster
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Mel Gibson teaching Euclidean geometry, Meg Ryan and Tim Robbins acting out Zeno's paradox, Michael Jackson proving in three different ways that 7 x 13 = 28. These are just a few of the intriguing mathematical snippets that occur in hundreds of movies. Burkard Polster and Marty Ross pored through the cinematic calculus to create this thorough and entertaining survey of the quirky, fun, and beautiful mathematics to be found on the big screen. Math Goes to the Movies is based on the authors' own collection of more than 700 mathematical movies and their many years using movie clips to inject...
Math Goes to the Movies by Burkard Polster is 301 pages long, and a total of 75,551 words.
This makes it 102% the length of the average book. It also has 92% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 52 minutes to read Math Goes to the Movies aloud.
Math Goes to the Movies is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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