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.
Some books you just have to return to in order to fully grasp them. This one will need a ”round 3” from me.
Can mathematics help a person become more skeptical?
read more Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences – John Allen Paulos
I bet you’ve tossed around words like ‘algorithm’ before, and you’ve not really known what it’s meant.
A book about Benoit Mandelbrot? Cool! And it’s magical realism? Even cooler!
It’s execution? Not so cool…
Statistics themselves can be rather boring, but this slim’s book story of how they affect our day to day life is rather captivating.