a: math ~
b: X-ray specs
What:
"In a world brimming with information, math is an important tool to help spot statistical glitches and everyday fallacies, but it's being lost. "Math is the science of not being wrong about things," he writes. "Knowing math is like wearing a pair of X-ray specs that reveal hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of the world."
Useful?
Writer: Jordan Ellenberg
LCC:
Where:
Date: Sep 2 2014 7:24 PM
# 6178 Critique Analogy