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Pluses and Minuses How Math Solves Our Problems

Paperback • 2020 • English

Pluses and Minuses How Math Solves Our Problems

By Stefan Buijsman

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About the book

A guide to changing how you think about numbers and mathematics, from the prodigy changing the way the world thinks about math. We all know math is important: we live in the age of big data, our lives are increasingly governed by algorithms, and we're constantly faced with a barrage of statistics about everything from politics to our health. But what might be less obvious is how math factors into your daily life, and what memorizing all of those formulae in school had to do with it. Math prodig...Show more

Number theory
Probability and statistics
Optimization

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ISBN

9780143134589

Publisher

Penguin

Published year

2020

Language

English

Original title

Pluses and Minuses How Math Solves Our Problems

Format

Paperback

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