How not to be wrong
Subtitle: the power of mathematical thinking
Publisher: The Penguin Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9781594205224
Copyright date: 2014
Other titles: How not to be wrong : the hidden maths of everyday life (UK)
Table of contents: label: When am I going to use this?
title: 1; label: Part I
title: Linearity; label: One
title: LESS LIKE SWEDEN
pagenum: 21; label: Two
title: STRAIGHT LOCALLY, CURVED GLOBALLY
pagenum: 31; label: Three
title: EVERYONE IS OBESE
pagenum: 50; label: Four
title: HOW MUCH IS THAT IN DEAD AMERICANS?
pagenum: 62; label: Five
title: MORE PIE THAN PLATE
pagenum: 77; label: Part II
title: Inference; label: Six
title: THE BALTIMORE STOCKBROKER AND THE BIBLE CODE
pagenum: 89; label: Seven
title: DEAD FISH DON'T READ MINDS
pagenum: 102; label: Eight
title: REDUCTIO AD UNLIKELY
pagenum: 131; label: Nine
title: THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HARUSPICY
pagenum: 145; label: Ten
title: ARE YOU THERE, GOD? IT'S ME, BAYESIAN INFERENCE
pagenum: 163; label: Part III
title: Expectation; label: Eleven
title: WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU'RE EXPECTING TO WIN THE LOTTERY
pagenum: 195; label: Twelve
title: MISS MORE PLANES!
pagenum: 233; label: Thirteen
title: WHERE THE TRAIN TRACKS MEET
pagenum: 253; label: Part IV
title: Regression; label: Fourteen
title: THE TRIUMPH OF MEDIOCRITY
pagenum: 295; label: Fifteen
title: GALTON'S ELLIPSE
pagenum: 311; label: Sixteen
title: DOES LUNG CANCER MAKE YOU SMOKE CIGARETTES?
pagenum: 347; label: Part V
title: Existence; label: Seventeen
title: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS PUBLIC OPINION
pagenum: 365; label: Eighteen
title: "OUT OF NOTHING I HAVE CREATED A STRANGE NEW UNIVERSE"
pagenum: 393; label: HOW TO BE RIGHT
title: 421; label: Acknowledgments
title: 439; label: Notes
title: 443; label: Index
title: 459