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Math: The Ultimate BS Detector

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Jordan  Ellenberg is a rare scholar is both a math professor (at the University of Wisconsin-Madison) and a novelist. And in his fascinating new book, How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking, he deploys analyses of poetry, politics, and even religion in a bold recasting of what math is in the first place.

H/T and via Barry Ritholtz

 

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