How Not to be Wrong: The Hidden Maths of Everyday Life

By:

Ellenberg, Jordan

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Penguin Books 2015 LondonDescription: 468pISBN:

9780718196042

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DDC classification:

510 ELL

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Item type	Current library	Item location	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	NIMA Knowledge Centre	9th Floor Reading Zone	General	510 ELL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		M0032097

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When am I Going to Use This?

Part I: Linearity
1. Less Like Sweden
2. Straight Locally, Curved Globally
3. Everyone Is Obese
4. How Much Is That In Dead Americans?
5. More Pie Than Plate

Part II: Inference
6. The Baltimore Stockbroker and the Bible Code
7. Dead Fish Don't Read Minds
8. Reductio Ad Unlikely
9. The International Journal of Haruspicy
10. Are You There, God? It's Me, Bayesian Inference

Part III: Expectation
11. What to Expect When You're Expecting to Win the Lottery
12. Miss More Planes!
13. Where the Train Tracks Meet

Part IV: Regression
14. The Triumph of Mediocrity
15. Galton's Ellipse
16. Does Lung Cancer Make You Smoke Cigarettes?

Part V: Existence
17. There Is No Such Thing As Public Opinion
18. “Out of Nothing I Have Created A Strange New Universe”

How to be right

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