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How Not to Be Wrong - The Power of Mathematical Thinking (Paperback)
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How Not to Be Wrong - The Power of Mathematical Thinking (Paperback)
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"Witty, compelling, and just plain fun to read . . ." -Evelyn Lamb,
Scientific American The Freakonomics of math-a math-world superstar
unveils the hidden beauty and logic of the world and puts its power
in our hands The math we learn in school can seem like a dull set
of rules, laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned. In
How Not to Be Wrong, Jordan Ellenberg shows us how terribly
limiting this view is: Math isn't confined to abstract incidents
that never occur in real life, but rather touches everything we
do-the whole world is shot through with it. Math allows us to see
the hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of
our world. It's a science of not being wrong, hammered out by
centuries of hard work and argument. Armed with the tools of
mathematics, we can see through to the true meaning of information
we take for granted: How early should you get to the airport? What
does "public opinion" really represent? Why do tall parents have
shorter children? Who really won Florida in 2000? And how likely
are you, really, to develop cancer? How Not to Be Wrong presents
the surprising revelations behind all of these questions and many
more, using the mathematician's method of analyzing life and
exposing the hard-won insights of the academic community to the
layman-minus the jargon. 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. Ellenberg pulls from history
as well as from the latest theoretical developments to provide
those not trained in math with the knowledge they need. 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 hand, you can understand the world in a
deeper, more meaningful way. How Not to Be Wrong will show you how.
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