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Geekspeak: Why Life + Mathematics = Happiness

by Graham Tattersall · 2007

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The quirky offspring of 'QI' and 'Freakonomics', 'Geekspeak' melds ingenious statistical analysis with edifying trivia to explain away some curious facts of life.

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