November: How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking

[Kristoffer]

Post your questions, comments and outrages here to share and discuss with other members. Happy reading!

[Paul]

Am now around 25% of the way through this. Some of it is very readable, and he gets the concepts across in a reasonable way, other parts descend into jargon sometimes.

[Skeetor]

I agree with Paul, it is a little heavy on math at times but the author demonstrates well how you shouldn't take given numbers at their "face value"--you have to look at how they were derived.

[Ray]

Only got into part 2. I am setting it aside for a while.

[Andree]

It's been disappointing so far for me. Nothing new at all. Hopefully at least one nugget will come forth.

[Paul]

Some of it isn't very readable either. Alex's Adventures in Numberland: Dispatches from the Wonderful World of Mathematics is a much better book

[Andree]

Paul wrote: "Some of it isn't very readable either. Alex's Adventures in Numberland: Dispatches from the Wonderful World of Mathematics is a much better book"

I'm chuckling. I like how, after the description explains that the book is about algebra, logs, etc., it adds "It also explains the strategy of how best to gamble in a casino."

[Paul]

Finished it a few days ago. There were some good parts in it, in particular the way of addressing a three way vote in political systems, by generally was not that impressed. Review here

[Andree]

I had that 3 way vote in a post grad discrete math class a long time ago. I don't know if I'll be finishing this.

[Steven]

I tried to read this month's book but had to give it up. It became painful to turn the pages knowing more dense prose was coming at me.

[Steven]

I tried to read this month's book but had to give it up. It became painful to turn the pages knowing more dense prose was coming at me.