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How Not to Be Wrong
- The Power of Mathematical Thinking
- By: Jordan Ellenberg
- Narrated by: Jordan Ellenberg
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,040
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,697
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,689
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.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great book but better in writing
- By Michael on 07-02-14
- How Not to Be Wrong
- The Power of Mathematical Thinking
- By: Jordan Ellenberg
- Narrated by: Jordan Ellenberg
Very Enlightening
Reviewed: 04-14-21
I found this book to be very enlightening, tying the practical to its base in the seemingly esoteric and unknowable. It is an exceptional read, or listen, as the case may be.
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