How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg is a really fun read. Let’s re-think mathematics today.
Bill Gates gave the book quite a boost when he blogged How Math Secretly Affects Your Life. Ellenberg won the 2016 Euler Book Prize, awarded annually for an outstanding book about mathematics. Jordan is a math professor at UWMadison.
Look beyond the title. Math holds special psyche on many of us.
Yet it is critical now in the age of covid-19 to consider how math allows us to think profoundly to answer today’s challenges.
Jordan demonstrates how math empowers us. Many readers will ask “When Am I Going To Use This?”
Well how about now as we confront the covid-19 pandemic?
Or consider chapter four: How Much Is That In Dead Americans. Jordan addresses widespread miscalculations assessing war dead. Times may change but standards must remain.
Reading How Not to Be Wrong as covid-19 is devastating major cities across our country seems the exact right time to think mathematically.