About the Book: Matt Parker examines what happens when mathematics goes wrong in the real world, from wobbling bridges to vanishing billions to resonance-driven building collapses. This bestselling book explores glitches and mishaps across the internet, big data, elections, lotteries, and history, revealing math’s hidden role behind modern life’s failures. Blending humor with insight, Parker shows how understanding these mistakes can make math our ally rather than our downfall. Packed with puzzles, jokes, and deliberate errors for readers to catch, it makes getting math wrong entertaining while revealing the essential, often invisible presence of mathematics in everyday systems.