Alex’s Adventures in Numberland by Alex Bellos

This book is as close as it can get to a concise encyclopedia of mathematical concepts. The best way to introduce it would be to show the notes I made for each chapter. These are not necessarily the best concepts that are mentioned in each chapter but are those that I thought were most interesting... Continue Reading →

How Not to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff

Be Careful of Half Truths and Statisticulations Something New I Learned I didn't know that the word "average" could mean two different things. I always thought that the word referred to the mean and not the median. But Huff writes that it could refer to the mean, median, or mode, and authors usually pick one... Continue Reading →

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