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" How not to be wrong : "
Jordan Ellenberg.
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BL
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557453
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b386189
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Jordan Ellenberg
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How not to be wrong : : the power of mathematical thinking\ Jordan Ellenberg.
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New York : Penguin Books,, 2014.
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(468 pages)
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0698163842
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: 0718196058
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: 9780698163843
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: 9780718196059
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When am I going to use this? -- Part I. Linearity : Less like Sweden -- Straight locally, curved globally -- Everyone is obese -- How much is that in dead Americans? -- More pie than plate -- Part II. Inference : The Baltimore stockbroker and the Bible Code -- Dead fish don't read minds -- Reductio ad unlikely -- The international journal of haruspicy -- Are you there, God? It's me, Bayesian inference -- Part III. Expectation : What to expect when you're expecting to win the lottery -- Miss more planes! -- Where the train tracks meet -- Part IV. Regression : The triumph of mediocrity -- Galton's ellipse -- Does lung cancer make you smoke cigarettes? -- Part V. Existence : There is no such thing as public opinion --
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Electronic books; Trivia and miscellanea; Miscellanea
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