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 surfac...
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New York :
The Penguin Press,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- When am I going to use this? ;
- Part I.
- Linearity.
- Less like Sweden ;
- Straight locally, curved globally ;
- Everyone is obese ;
- How much is that in dead Americans? ;
- More pie than plate
- Part II.
- 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
- Part III.
- Expectation.
- What to expect when you're expecting to win the lottery ;
- Miss more planes! ;
- Where the train tracks meet
- Part IV.
- Regression.
- The triumph of mediocrity ;
- Galton's ellipse ;
- Does lung cancer make you smoke cigarettes?
- Part V.
- Existence.
- There is no such thing as public opinion ;
- "Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe" ;
- How to be right.