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How Not to Be Wrong

by Jordan Ellenberg · 2014

Jordan Ellenberg's book about mathematical thinking, uncertainty, and the hidden math behind everyday judgment.

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Jordan EllenbergMathematician and author

Mathematician at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of popular mathematics books.

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The book's larger point is that, as Ellenberg writes, 'to do mathematics is to be, at once, touched by fire and bound by reason'-and that there are ways in which we're all doing math, all the time.
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TIME · 2016-05-17 · accessed 2026-06-20

TIME reports Gates's 2016 Gates Notes summer list and quotes his comments on How Not to Be Wrong.

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