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How Not to Be Wrong

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

How Not to Be Wrong

By Jordan Ellenberg

1 Ratings • 5.0 of 5

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About the book

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe 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 the cosmic, showing us which numbers to defend, w...Show more

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ISBN

9780718196042

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Published year

2015

Language

Edition

1

Original title

How Not to Be Wrong

Format

Paperback

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