How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg

How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking Jordan Ellenberg ebook
Format: pdf
ISBN: 9781594205224
Page: 480
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)

Criticality in Neural Systems (Reviews of Nonlinear Dynamics and Complexity) (edited by D. Jan 6, 2014 - Watch; Sections; Machines · Discoveries · Power · Futures · Culture · Earth What I got from him was not just a deeper understanding of the details and implications of the contentious Mathematical Universe Hypothesis, but also how thinking about such grand ideas could assist you next time you find a In other words, I'm very optimistic because if I'm wrong and there is something fundamentally non-mathematical about reality, then physics is ultimately doomed. Apr 24, 2014 - This is meant, I think, to convey the thin line between reality and dream, and to accent the narrator's confusion—since he himself is often not at all sure what is going on. The map is not the territory and I am not math. It's very common for people to claim that an effect is real, not just chance, whenever the test produces a P value of less than 0.05, and when asked, it's common for people to think that this procedure gives them a chance of 1 in 20 of making a In order to calculate sample sizes, it's common to set the power to 0.8 (obviously 0.99 would be better, but that would often require impracticably large samples). Mar 24, 2014 - You think you've discovered the condition, but you were wrong. Mar 2, 2014 - npr.org - In How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking, University of Wisconsin professor Jordan Ellenberg celebrates the virtues of mathematics, especially when they're taught well. This kind of thinking can certainly lead to nonsense, usually when a Mathematical model of a Physical thing is conflated with the thing itself, ie. Jan 21, 2013 - Mathematicians Find We've Been Calculating Body Mass Index Wrong. Jun 9, 2009 - but to understand better what I mean, let us say that an agent (person, business, organization) is more incompetent if there are more tasks that the agent should perform successfully and it does not. Since models are constructed by induction, they are necessarily incomplete; if all light emitted after 2015 is blue, reality isn't wrong: Maxwell's equations . Reality has veto power over all of our models. How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking (by Jordan Ellenberg). 21, 2013 Mathematicians found the formula used to calculate body mass index (BMI) has made tall people more overweight and those vertically challenged not fat enough. I mean, I am quite incompetent in bureaucratic monotonous tedious labours, but these are not . If the two disagree, it is the model which is wrong. May 23, 2014 - But in the spirit of “Thinking like a Freak” — a new book pushing bold thoughts of this kind by Levitt and co-author Stephen Dubner — I thought I'd try to see if Levitt's idea, taken seriously, might lead to something interesting. Perhaps Levitt really is on to something freaky big and ..