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The best books on grand, unifying ideas about how the world works
When our descendants look back and ask, “Which scientist’s work changed the way we think, around the year 2000?”, I am prepared to bet that Judea Pearl will be top of the list. Before Pearl, statisticians refused to allow any model of the world into their analysis, thinking it wise to say “correlation does not imply causation,” while remaining scrupulously blind to the reasonableness of some models over others.
From Hopelessness to Rejoicing
By Luke Heaton, Staff Writer The Texas Rangers are World Series champions for the first time in franchise history! As a Rangers fan, I’m thrilled to write today’s devotional about my team winning. Texas was one of six teams who hadn’t won a World Series, but after defeating the Arizona Diamondbacks four games to one, they have removed themselves from that undesirable list of franchises. For many reasons, this Rangers championship means so much to the players and the fans.
Mathematical reasoning and the human mind [excerpt] | OUPblog
There is strong empirical evidence that before they learn to speak, and long before they learn mathematics, children start to structure their perceptual world. For example, a child might play with some eggs by putting them in a bowl, and they have some sense that this collection of eggs is in a different spatial region to the things that are outside the bowl.
In defense of mathematics [excerpt] | OUPblog
Mathematics is often praised (or ignored) on the grounds that it is far removed from the lives of ordinary people, but that assessment of the subject is utterly mistaken. As G. H. Hardy observed in A Mathematician’s Apology: Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune; and there are probably more people really interested in mathematics than in music. Appearances suggest the contrary, but there are easy explanations.
News & Events: Read.
This week at the front of the store you'll find suggested reading for community, resistance, activism, and progress. Browse the display in the store or here on harvard.com Join us. Purchase tickets for those events requiring them Our event season kicks into high gear these next few weeks as the new books of 2017 arrive on our shelves.Purchase tickets for those events requiring them here . And stay tuned for our March lineup, rolling out on harvard.com/events in the next two weeks.
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