How Not to Be Wrong
the hidden maths of everyday life
$25.81
- Paperback
480 pages
- Release Date
28 July 2015
Summary
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
The maths we learn in school can seem like an abstract set of rules, laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned. In fact, Jordan Ellenberg shows us, maths touches on everything we do, and a little mathematical knowledge reveals the hidden structures that lie beneath the world’s messy and chaotic surface.
In How Not to be Wrong, Ellenberg explores the mathematician’s method of analyzing life, from the everyday to…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780718196042 |
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| ISBN-10: | 071819604X |
| Author: | Jordan Ellenberg |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 28 July 2015 |
| Weight: | 327g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 20mm |
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About The Author
Jordan Ellenberg
Jordan Ellenberg is a Professor of Mathematics at University of Wisconsin, and the ‘Do the Math’ columnist at Slate. He has lectured around the world on his research in number theory, and delivered one of the plenary addresses at the 2013 Joint Mathematics Meetings, the largest math conference in the world. His novel The Grasshopper King was shortlisted for the NYPL Young Lions Award, and he writes regularly for The New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post and Wired.
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