TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ellenberg,Jordan
TI  - How not to be wrong: the power of mathematical thinking 
SN  - 9781594205224
AV  - QA99 .E45 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York
PB  - The Penguin Press
KW  - Mathematics
KW  - Miscellanea
KW  - Mathematical analysis
KW  - MATHEMATICS / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-457) and index; When am I going to use this? -- Linearity. Less like Sweden ; Straight locally, curved globally ; Everyone is obese ; How much is that in dead Americans? ; More pie than plate -- Inference. The Baltimore stockbroker and the Bible Code ; Dead fish don't read minds ; Reductio ad unlikely ; The international journal of haruspicy ; Are you there, God? It's me, Bayesian inference -- Expectation. What to expect when you're expecting to win the lottery ; Miss more planes! ; Where the train tracks meet -- Regression. The triumph of mediocrity ; Galton's ellipse ; Does lung cancer make you smoke cigarettes? -- Existence. There is no such thing as public opinion ; "Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe" -- How to be right
ER  -