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The Math Instinct

2009-04-29 Science
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Release : 2009-04-29
Genre : Science
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Book Rating : 186/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Math Instinct by : Keith Devlin

Download or read book The Math Instinct written by Keith Devlin. This book was released on 2009-04-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are two kinds of math: the hard kind and the easy kind. The easy kind, practiced by ants, shrimp, Welsh corgis -- and us -- is innate. What innate calculating skills do we humans have? Leaving aside built-in mathematics, such as the visual system, ordinary people do just fine when faced with mathematical tasks in the course of the day. Yet when they are confronted with the same tasks presented as "math," their accuracy often drops. But if we have innate mathematical ability, why do we have to teach math and why do most of us find it so hard to learn? Are there tricks or strategies that the ordinary person can do to improve mathematical ability? Can we improve our math skills by learning from dogs, cats, and other creatures that "do math"? The answer to each of these questions is a qualified yes. All these examples of animal math suggest that if we want to do better in the formal kind of math, we should see how it arises from natural mathematics. From NPR's "Math Guy" -- The Math Instinct will provide even the most number-phobic among us with confidence in our own mathematical abilities.

Math Instinct

2006-05-01 Mathematics
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Release : 2006-05-01
Genre : Mathematics
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Book Rating : 655/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Math Instinct by : Keith J. Devlin

Download or read book Math Instinct written by Keith J. Devlin. This book was released on 2006-05-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Public Radio's "Math Guy" explains why humans possess a remarkable capacity for "natural" math while offering words of confidence for the multitudes who are afraid of math.

The Math Gene

2001-05-17 Science
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Release : 2001-05-17
Genre : Science
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Book Rating : 087/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Math Gene by : Keith Devlin

Download or read book The Math Gene written by Keith Devlin. This book was released on 2001-05-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If people are endowed with a "number instinct" similar to the "language instinct" -- as recent research suggests -- then why can't everyone do math? In The Math Gene, mathematician and popular writer Keith Devlin attacks both sides of this question. Devlin offers a breathtakingly new theory of language development that describes how language evolved in two stages and how its main purpose was not communication. Devlin goes on to show that the ability to think mathematically arose out of the same symbol-manipulating ability that was so crucial to the very first emergence of true language. Why, then, can't we do math as well as we speak? The answer, says Devlin, is that we can and do -- we just don't recognize when we're using mathematical reasoning.

The Unfinished Game

2010-03-23 Mathematics
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Release : 2010-03-23
Genre : Mathematics
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Book Rating : 963/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Unfinished Game by : Keith Devlin

Download or read book The Unfinished Game written by Keith Devlin. This book was released on 2010-03-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the mid-seventeenth century, scholars generally agreed that it was impossible to predict something by calculating mathematical outcomes. One simply could not put a numerical value on the likelihood that a particular event would occur. Even the outcome of something as simple as a dice roll or the likelihood of showers instead of sunshine was thought to lie in the realm of pure, unknowable chance. The issue remained intractable until Blaise Pascal wrote to Pierre de Fermat in 1654, outlining a solution to the "unfinished game" problem: how do you divide the pot when players are forced to.

Mathematickles!

2006-07 Juvenile Nonfiction
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Release : 2006-07
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
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Book Rating : 612/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Mathematickles! by : Betsy Franco

Download or read book Mathematickles! written by Betsy Franco. This book was released on 2006-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems written in the form of mathematical problems and grouped according to seasonal themes.

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