Content tagged with "math"
wonderful book. presents a wire-ranging looking at the big data phenomenon, specifically on the technological and societal changes that have occurred to bring it about, and what this means to the future. things like: Our sample sizes are increasing. For many applications, we’re able to poll n = all….
A look at the profound-ness of math and why it matters. Gets a little ponderous in places, but it’s a wonderful examination of eternal rules of math which transcend numbers to logic and even philosophy. In some parts, it examines rules of logical thinking. In others, it examines how academia treats…
Technically, I abandoned this book, but I’m still counting it as read because I learned a lot from it. What I learned is that network theory is actually a thing. It’s a branch of mathematics. And, weirdly, a lot of the seemingly unsolvable story problems you read as a kid are actually network theory…
