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math for poets

Review from Pluses and Minuses →

narrator terrific. content just, meh, too obvious for someone with stem degree. basically a book about math that does not contain any actual math. better books: men of mathematics and elements of mathematics. (not sure if those have audible versions.)

Great overview

Review from Through Two Doors at Once →

I’ve listened to a bunch of quantum physics books but this one has been my favorite. it does a great job of explaining the double slit experiment and it’s many evolutions. It then summarizes the various theories currently held on why we see the results of the experiment very succinctly. I would recommend this to..

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I Wanted to Like This Book…But.

Review from Super Thinking →

I am sympathetic to the concept of “mental models.” I believe that models have value in many situations. And so I wanted to like this book. But I can’t. Too many of its examples are trite or obvious. And it contains too many examples of reasoning by metaphor. For example, the concept of critical mass..

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