How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
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| Rating | : | 4.62 (675 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00KO83PMS |
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| Number of Pages | : | 356 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-27 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Ellenberg chases mathematical threads through a vast range of time and space, from the everyday to the cosmic, encountering, among other things, baseball, Reaganomics, daring lottery schemes, Voltaire, the replicability crisis in psychology, Italian Renaissance painting, artificial languages, the development of non-Euclidean geometry, the coming obesity apocalypse, Antonin Scalia's views on crime and punishment, the psychology of slime molds, what Facebook can and can't figure out about you, and the existence of God. It's a science of not being wrong, hammered out by centuries of hard work and argument. Math, as Ellenberg says, is "an atomic-powered prosthesis that you attach to your common sense, vastly multiplying its reach and strength." With the tools of mathematics in ha
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