This Is The Power of Mathematics

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How mathematics can help us understand the world we live in
By The Blinkist Curators

What's it about?

Whether it's dividing up a restaurant bill among your friends, scrutinizing the next click-bait research article, or multiplying the ingredient list of your favorite banana bread recipe, you use mathematics throughout your average day. It's a fundamental part of logic and thought, and can be used to strengthen our power of reasoning. In this collection of Blinks and Shortcast episodes, you'll learn how statistical models can help explain soccer, pick up some numerical party tricks, and discover how geometry can help you understand a bit more about almost everything in the world.

This Is The Power of Mathematics

How mathematics can help us understand the world we live in
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