As Richard Hamming formulated it in 1980: Mathematics is unreasonably effective. That mathematics is useful and turns out to have practical applications is a fortunate side effect. One should not necessarily necessarily do mathematics to solve particular problems. However, what Parker takes as a starting point is that mathematics is fun to do and that people should start doing mathematics for the fun of it. Many people experience mathematics as annoyingly difficult, extremely boring, and exclusively for nerds. In fact, that is a major point he wants to make with this book.
So you may expect this book to be fun as well. Matt Parker is a "standup-mathematician", i.e., stand-up comedian and a maths communicator and he loves to mix both.
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