000 02314nam0a22002773i 4500
001 IT\ICCU\UTO\1252970
003 BJBSDDR
005 20240626154607.0
007 ta
008 200624s2015 nyu 00| 0 eng d
020 _a9780143127536
020 _a0143127535,
040 _bspa
_cBJBSDDR
041 _aeng
050 1 4 _aQA 99
_bE45h 2015
100 1 _aEllenberg, Jordan Stuart,
_d1971-
_934026
245 1 0 _aHow not to be wrong :
_bthe power of mathematical thinking /
_cJordan Ellenberg.
260 _aNew York :
_bPenguin Books,
_c2015.
300 _a468 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c21 cm.
505 0 _aWhen 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 ; "Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe" ; How to be right.
520 _aA brilliant tour of mathematical thought and a guide to becoming a better thinker, How Not to Be Wrong shows that math is not just a long list of rules to be learned and carried out by rote. Math touches everything we do; It's what makes the world make sense. Using the mathematician's methods and hard-won insights-minus the jargon-professor and popular columnist Jordan Ellenberg guides general readers through his ideas with rigor and lively irreverence, infusing everything from election results to baseball to the existence of God and the psychology of slime molds with a heightened sense of clarity and wonder. Armed with the tools of mathematics, we can see the hidden structures beneath the messy and chaotic surface of our daily lives. How Not to Be Wrong shows us how
650 4 _aAnálisis matemático
_921165
650 4 _aMatemáticas
_96152
942 _2lcc
_cBK
946 _idpf
999 _c121419
_d121419