How not to be wrong : the hidden maths of everyday life
Ellenberg, Jordan2014
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Place reservation for How not to be wrong : the hidden maths of everyday lifeHow a little mathematics goes a long way in helping you not to be wrong. Explore the mathematician's way of analysing life, from the everyday to the cosmic, showing us which numbers to defend, which ones to ignore, & when to change the equation entirely.
Main title:
How not to be wrong : the hidden maths of everyday life / by Jordan Ellenberg
Author:
Imprint:
London Allen Lane 2014
Collation:
468 pages illustrations
Contents:
When am I going to use this? -- Linearity -- Less like Sweden -- Straight locally, curved globally -- Everyone is obese -- How much is that in dead Americans? -- More pie than plate -- 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 -- Expectation -- What to expect when you're expecting to win the lottery -- Miss more planes! -- Where the train tracks meet -- Regression -- The triumph of mediocrity -- Galton's ellipse -- Does lung cancer make you smoke cigarettes? -- Existence -- There is no such thing as public opinion -- 'Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe' -- How to be right
ISBN:
9781846146787 (hbk)
Dewey class:
510 HOW
Local class:
510
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
107910
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Marys | Nonfiction | 510 HOW | pbkAvailable |
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