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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, the Boston Globe, and the Believer, and is a regular columnist for Slate.
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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?
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##听说这是比尔盖茨最喜欢的十本书之一，我才找来读。读了前两章，还有点鄙视盖茨，这么简单的数学概念，有啥值得推荐的？但是读到后面不得了，越来越引人入胜，有点放不下的感觉。 重点推荐第二、第三、第四部分。第一部分略浅显；而第五部分，尤其最后一章，感觉太拔高数学了，...
评分 评分 评分 评分《魔鬼数学》：美丽又神秘的随机性，以素数为例，告诉你，数轴上素数的分布尽管是无限的，但也是有规律的。广义上说，任何数被素数除后的余数是随机的，但素数本身看起来出现的规律目前并没有解答出。张益唐将孪生素数之间的距离缩小到7000万以内，现在最新的进展是彼此间不大...
评分 评分##cant even finish it... too general and too common sense
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