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QA 99 .E45 2014
QA
99
.
E45
2014
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
electronic
author
Ellenberg, Jordan
1791-
How not to be wrong :the power of mathematical thinking
New York
Penguin Books
2014
468 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references )pages 443-457( and index
Jordan Ellenberg
When am I going to use this? -- Linearity. Less like Sweden ; Straight locally, curved globally ; Everyone is obese ; How much is that in dead Americans? ; More pie than plate -- 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 -- Expectation. What to expect when you're expecting to win the lottery ; Miss more planes! ; Where the train tracks meet -- Regression. The triumph of mediocrity ; Galton's ellipse ; Does lung cancer make you smoke cigarettes? -- Existence. There is no such thing as public opinion ; "Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe" -- How to be right
Miscellanea ، Mathematics
Miscellanea ، Mathematical analysis
، MATHEMATICS / General
QA
99
.
E45
2014
AU
TI
