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Hannah Fry’s book Hello World.
Tim Harford • The Data Detective
I’ll show that making mathematical models is about seeing patterns and making analogies.
David Sumpter • Soccermatics: Mathematical Adventures in the Beautiful Game (Bloomsbury Sigma)
At the heart of maths is the desire to understand things rather than just know them.
Eugenia Cheng • How to Bake Pi
The key in maths, and with maps, is to find the most appropriate level of abstraction for the given moment.
Eugenia Cheng • How to Bake Pi
(By the way, that is a good general principle with statistics: be careful jumping to any conclusions if the differences are smaller than say, roughly, 10 percent.)
Ola Rosling • Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think
A powerful aspect of abstraction is that many different situations become the same when you forget some details.
Eugenia Cheng • The Art of Logic
8. First order irrational, second order rational (h/t Chris Paik)