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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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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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