How Not to be Wrong
Registered by webosfritos of Gijón, Asturies/Asturias Spain on 5/22/2022
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
1 journaler for this copy...
Great book about how to apply mathematics to everyday life. Even if you think mathematics does not apply to a situation, it does. The book is very good, but several chapters in this book are the perfect example of how engaging books to disseminate science to the public should be written.
"The unknown is a stone in the sea, which obstructs our progress. We can try to pack dynamite in the crevices of rock, detonate, it, and repeat until the rock breaks apart. Or you can take a more contemplative approach, allowing your level of understanding gradually and gently to rise, until after a time what appeared as an obstacle is overtopped by the calm water, and is gone."
"The ability to work hard-to keep one's whole attention and energy focused on a problem, systematically turning it over and over and pushing at everything that looks like a crack, despite the lack of outward signs of progress-is not a skill everybody has."
Journal Entry 4 by webosfritos at Sidewalk library corner Traveler Street and Dorchester Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts USA on Sunday, May 22, 2022
Released 1 yr ago (5/22/2022 UTC) at Sidewalk library corner Traveler Street and Dorchester Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts USA
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
In the Corner of Traveler Street and Dorchester Avenue, in front of the Cambria Hotel, you will find a red "Sidewalk Library". There you can pick a book or leave a book. "How not to be wrong" will be there until somebody will catch it. Enjoy the hunt.
