online archive
5:00PM
SEP 24 2007
Math is fun-damental!
From California Literary Review, an interview with Alfred S. Posamentier, co-author of The Fabulous Fibonacci Numbers. A review of The Mathematician's Brain: A Personal Tour Through the Essentials of Mathematics and Some of the Great Minds Behind Them by David Ruelle. Presenting numbers in the billions and trillions is a common challenge for advocates, politicians and journalists. These numbers can present a cognitive challenge and how they have been presented to shock or to edify. A review of The Tiger that Isn't: Seeing Through a World of Numbers by Michael Blastland and Andrew Dilnot. An interview with Ian Ayres, author of Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart (and a review).
