How Not to Be Wrong:The Power of Mathematical Thinking

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2014-05
ISBN: 9781594205224
定价: 210.10
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页数: 48页
正文语种: 英语
  • 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?How Not to Be Wrong presents the surprising revelations behind all of these questions and many more, using the mathematician’s method of analyzing life and exposing the hard-won insights of the academic community to the layman—minus the jargon. Ellenberg chases mathematical threads through a vast range of time and space, from the everyday to the cosmic, encountering, among other things, baseball, Reaganomics, daring lottery schemes, Voltaire, the replicability crisis in psychology, Italian Renaissance painting, artificial languages, the development of non-Euclidean geometry, the coming obesity apocalypse, Antonin Scalia’s views on crime and punishment, the psychology of slime molds, what Facebook can and can’t figure out about you, and the existence of God.Ellenberg pulls from history as well as from the latest theoretical developments to provide those not trained in math with the knowledge they need. Math, as Ellenberg says, is “an atomic-powered prosthesis that you attach to your common sense, vastly multiplying its reach and strength.” With the tools of mathematics in hand, you can understand the world in a deeper, more meaningful way. How Not to Be Wrong will show you how. Jordan Ellenberg is the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.He has lectured around the world on his researchin number theory and delivered one of the plenaryaddresses at the 2013 Joint Mathematics Meetings, thelargest math conference in the world. His writing hasappeared inWired,The New York Times,The Washington Post,The Wall Street Journal,The Boston Globe, andThe Believer, andhe has been featured on theTodayshow and NPR’sAllThings Considered. He writes a popular column called “Dothe Math” forSlate.,, CONTENTS
    Title Page
    Copyright
    Dedication
    Epigraph

    WHEN AM I GOING TO USE THIS?
    PART I
    Linearity
    One. LESS LIKE SWEDEN
    Two. STRAIGHT LOCALLY, CURVED GLOBALLY
    Three. EVERYONE IS OBESE
    Four. HOW MUCH IS THAT IN DEAD AMERICANS?
    Five. MORE PIE THAN PLATE
    PART II
    Inference
    Six. THE BALTIMORE STOCKBROKER AND THE BIBLE CODE
    Seven. DEAD FISH DON’T READ MINDS
    Eight. REDUCTIO AD UNLIKELY
    Nine. THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HARUSPICY
    Ten. ARE YOU THERE, GOD? IT’S ME, BAYESIAN INFERENCE
    PART III
    Expectation
    Eleven. WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING TO WIN THE LOTTERY
    Twelve. MISS MORE PLANES!
    Thirteen. WHERE THE TRAIN TRACKS MEET
    PART IV
    Regression
    Fourteen. THE TRIUMPH OF MEDIOCRITY
    Fifteen. GALTON’S ELLIPSE
    Sixteen. DOES LUNG CANCER MAKE YOU SMOKE CIGARETTES?
    PART V
    Existence
    Seventeen. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS PUBLIC OPINION
    Eighteen. “OUT OF NOTHING I HAVE CREATED A STRANGE NEW UNIVERSE”
    HOW TO BE RIGHT

    Acknowledgments
    Notes
    Index
    该内容有Taobao 乐读书屋提供 # http://l-books.taobao.com #
  • 内容简介:
    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?How Not to Be Wrong presents the surprising revelations behind all of these questions and many more, using the mathematician’s method of analyzing life and exposing the hard-won insights of the academic community to the layman—minus the jargon. Ellenberg chases mathematical threads through a vast range of time and space, from the everyday to the cosmic, encountering, among other things, baseball, Reaganomics, daring lottery schemes, Voltaire, the replicability crisis in psychology, Italian Renaissance painting, artificial languages, the development of non-Euclidean geometry, the coming obesity apocalypse, Antonin Scalia’s views on crime and punishment, the psychology of slime molds, what Facebook can and can’t figure out about you, and the existence of God.Ellenberg pulls from history as well as from the latest theoretical developments to provide those not trained in math with the knowledge they need. Math, as Ellenberg says, is “an atomic-powered prosthesis that you attach to your common sense, vastly multiplying its reach and strength.” With the tools of mathematics in hand, you can understand the world in a deeper, more meaningful way. How Not to Be Wrong will show you how.
  • 作者简介:
    Jordan Ellenberg is the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.He has lectured around the world on his researchin number theory and delivered one of the plenaryaddresses at the 2013 Joint Mathematics Meetings, thelargest math conference in the world. His writing hasappeared inWired,The New York Times,The Washington Post,The Wall Street Journal,The Boston Globe, andThe Believer, andhe has been featured on theTodayshow and NPR’sAllThings Considered. He writes a popular column called “Dothe Math” forSlate.,,
  • 目录:
    CONTENTS
    Title Page
    Copyright
    Dedication
    Epigraph

    WHEN AM I GOING TO USE THIS?
    PART I
    Linearity
    One. LESS LIKE SWEDEN
    Two. STRAIGHT LOCALLY, CURVED GLOBALLY
    Three. EVERYONE IS OBESE
    Four. HOW MUCH IS THAT IN DEAD AMERICANS?
    Five. MORE PIE THAN PLATE
    PART II
    Inference
    Six. THE BALTIMORE STOCKBROKER AND THE BIBLE CODE
    Seven. DEAD FISH DON’T READ MINDS
    Eight. REDUCTIO AD UNLIKELY
    Nine. THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HARUSPICY
    Ten. ARE YOU THERE, GOD? IT’S ME, BAYESIAN INFERENCE
    PART III
    Expectation
    Eleven. WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING TO WIN THE LOTTERY
    Twelve. MISS MORE PLANES!
    Thirteen. WHERE THE TRAIN TRACKS MEET
    PART IV
    Regression
    Fourteen. THE TRIUMPH OF MEDIOCRITY
    Fifteen. GALTON’S ELLIPSE
    Sixteen. DOES LUNG CANCER MAKE YOU SMOKE CIGARETTES?
    PART V
    Existence
    Seventeen. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS PUBLIC OPINION
    Eighteen. “OUT OF NOTHING I HAVE CREATED A STRANGE NEW UNIVERSE”
    HOW TO BE RIGHT

    Acknowledgments
    Notes
    Index
    该内容有Taobao 乐读书屋提供 # http://l-books.taobao.com #
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