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类别 页数 译者 网友评分 年代 出版社
书籍 480页 8.4 2020 Penguin Press
定价 出版日期 最近访问 访问指数
USD 27.95 2020-02-20 … 2020-03-03 … 18
主题/类型/题材/标签
数学,思维,科普,英文原版,方法论,Mathematics,英文版,美国,
作者
Jordan Ellenberg      ISBN:9781594205224    原作名/别名:《》
内容和作者简介
How Not to Be Wrong摘要

The Freakonomics of math—a math-world superstar unveils the hidden beauty and logic of the world and puts its power in our hands

The math we learn in school can seem like a dull set of rules, laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned. In How Not to Be Wrong, Jordan Ellenberg shows us how terribly limiting this view is: 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 surface of our world. It’s a science of not being wrong, hammered out by centuries of hard work and argument. Armed with the tools of mathematics, we can see through to the true meaning of information we take for granted: How early should you get to the airport? What does “public opinion” really represent? Why do tall parents have shorter children? Who really won Florida in 2000? And how likely are you, really, to develop cancer?

作者简介

Jordan Ellenberg is a professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with a Ph.D. in mathematics from Harvard and an MFA in creative writing from Johns Hopkins. His areas of research specialization are number theory and algebraic geometry. He has written articles on mathematical topics in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Wired, the Wall Street Journal,...

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