If you think that the last time you studied at school or, at best, at the university, Jordan Ellenberg has news for you: in fact, you are engaged in it every day of your life. How early do you need to come to the airport? What exactly reflects the "public opinion"? Why do high parents have low children? All these questions can be answered using mathematics - and Ellenberg tells how.
Bill Gates turned on the book of Ellenberg “How not to be mistaken. The power of mathematical thinking ”is in your list“ Five Books that should read this summer ”in 2016. Gates notes that the book helped him understand that "we are all engaged in mathematics all the time."
Excerpt for familiarization
Every time you see that more good is not always better; When you recall that the incredible often happens if there is a sufficient amount of chances, and resist the temptations that the Baltic broker promises you; when you make a decision not only on the basis of the most likely future, but a whole set of possible options for the future; when you discard the idea that the beliefs of the group should obey the same rules as the beliefs of individuals; Or when you just find a comfortable cognitive area in which you can allow your intuition to develop rapidly, relying on the network of ways laid for it formal logic - in all these cases, without any formulas, equations and graphs, you are engaged in mathematics, which is a continuation of common sense, but only by other means. When will it come in handy? You are already using mathematics from the very moment of birth and, in all likelihood, never stop doing this. Use it for the good.
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