How not to be wrong the power of mathematical thinking
"In How Not to Be Wrong, Jordan Ellenberg shows us that 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 w...
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New York, New York :
The Penguin Press,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- When am I going to use this?
- Linearity. Less like Sweden ; Straight locally, curved globally ; Everyone is obese ; How much is that in dead Americans? ; More pie than plate
- Inference. The Baltimore stockbroker and the Bible Code ; Dead fish don't read minds ; Reductio ad unlikely ; The international journal of haruspicy ; Are you there, God? It's me, Bayesian inference
- Expectation. What to expect when you're expecting to win the lottery ; Miss more planes! ; Where the train tracks meet
- Regression. The triumph of mediocrity ; Galton's eclipse ; Does lung cancer make you smoke cigarettes?
- Existence. There is no such thing as public opinion ; "Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe"
- How to be right.
