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– Personal ramblings, thinly veiled as thoughts on what I read

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Cognitive Science, Math, Non-Fiction, Philosophy  0 Comments

September 23, 2022October 15, 2021

Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics Into Being – George Lakoff & Rafael E. Núñez

Some books you just have to return to in order to fully grasp them. This one will need a ”round 3” from me.

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Math, Non-Fiction, Scepticism  0 Comments

July 9, 2021April 21, 2021

Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences – John Allen Paulos

Can mathematics help a person become more skeptical?

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AI, Computer Science, Math, Non-Fiction  0 Comments

November 15, 2019August 5, 2019

Hello World – Hannah Fry

I bet you’ve tossed around words like ‘algorithm’ before, and you’ve not really known what it’s meant.

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Biography, Fiction, History, Magical Realism, Math  0 Comments

February 15, 2019November 21, 2018

Mandelbrot the Magnificent – Liz Ziemska

A book about Benoit Mandelbrot? Cool! And it’s magical realism? Even cooler!
It’s execution? Not so cool…

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History, Math, Non-Fiction  0 Comments

May 4, 2018March 8, 2018

The Drunkard’s Walk – Leonard Mlodinow

Statistics themselves can be rather boring, but this slim’s book story of how they affect our day to day life is rather captivating.

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