Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors – Matt Parker
A book on the the funny ways in which people are not very good at math
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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.
Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences – John Allen Paulos
Can mathematics help a person become more skeptical?
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Hello World – Hannah Fry
I bet you’ve tossed around words like ‘algorithm’ before, and you’ve not really known what it’s meant.
Mandelbrot the Magnificent – Liz Ziemska
A book about Benoit Mandelbrot? Cool! And it’s magical realism? Even cooler!
It’s execution? Not so cool…
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.
