عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
QA 99 .E45 2014
QA
99
.
E45
2014
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER
Standard Number
electronic
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
author
First Statement of Responsibility
Ellenberg, Jordan
Title Proper by Another Author
1791-
Title Proper
How not to be wrong :the power of mathematical thinking
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Penguin Books
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2014
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
468 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
GENERAL NOTES
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references )pages 443-457( and index
NOTES PERTAINING TO TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Text of Note
Jordan Ellenberg
CONTENTS NOTE
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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
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Entry Element
Miscellanea ، Mathematics
Entry Element
Miscellanea ، Mathematical analysis
Entry Element
، MATHEMATICS / General
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
QA
99
.
E45
2014
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
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AU
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