Book:Jordan Ellenberg/How Not to be Wrong

Subject Matter

 * Mathematics

Contents

 * When am I going to use this?


 * Part I: Linearity


 * One. Less Like Sweden
 * Two. Straight Locally, Curved Globally
 * Three. Everyone is Obese
 * Four. How Much Is That in Dead Americans?
 * Five. More Pie than Plate


 * Part II: Inference


 * Six. The Baltimore Stockbroker and the Bible Code
 * Seven. Dead Fish Don't Read Minds
 * Eight. Reductio ad Unlikely
 * Nine. The International Journal of Haruspicity
 * Ten. Are You There, God? It's Me, Bayesian Inference


 * Part III: Expectation


 * Eleven. What to Expect when you're Expecting to Win the Lottery
 * Twelve. Miss More Planes!
 * Thirteen. Where the Train Tracks Meet


 * Part IV. Regression


 * Fourteen. The Triumph of Mediocrity
 * Fifteen. Galton's Eclipse
 * Sixteen. Does Lung Cancer make you Smoke Cigarettes?


 * Part V. Existence


 * Seventeen. There is No Such Thing as Public Opinion
 * Eighteen. "Out of Nothing I have Created a Strange New Universe"


 * How To Be Right


 * Acknowledgments
 * Notes
 * Index