Think like a mathematician simple tools for complex everyday problems
"When we learn about abstract mathematical concepts - from prime numbers and fractals to aspects of calculus - the most common question is often: when on earth will I need this? To many of us, so-called 'pure' mathematics is downright baffling. Yet these concepts are what underpin the world we live...
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2025.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The continuum: the infinitesimal detail of the everyday
- Gradients: embracing life's ebb and flow
- Relations: the unexpectedness sameness of things
- Sets: counting from zero to infinity
- and beyond
- Axioms: how core beliefs underpin our worldview
- Logic: how to win (and lose) arguments
- Combinatorics: sizing up life's dizzying options
- Dimensionality: escaping our perceptual limits
- Distance: rethinking proximity, and why our life goals may be closer than we think
- Fractals: the strange geometry that shapes our world
- Epilogue.
