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Anonymous Fri Dec 11 21:22:15 2020 No.17005346 [Reply] [Original]

Plz, can you recommend any interesting books about math/logic/statistics/etc. that can be read by an 110 IQ humanities fag? I love math but I am not good at it.

I'm not looking for a beginners book to teach me basic math or something, I guess I mean more "pop sci" type stuff but about math, but is there stuff that's a tier above pop sci but not literally text books for upper level math classes. I have looked at those and sadly they typically assume the reader is already familiar with certain terms and principles that I am not.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 11 21:23:18 2020 No.17005354 >>17005346 Just look at college textbooks start from precalc and use khan academy to fill your gaps

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 12 01:44:59 2020 No.17006918 >>17005346 There's a big book by this guy who used to be friends with epstein about number patterns and "weird curls" you might like. I think it's called "Goebbels, Esther, and Bach," but I could be wrong.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 12 01:54:02 2020 No.17006958 >>17005346 An Introduction to Mathematics by Alfred North Whitehead

Anonymous Sat Dec 12 01:56:16 2020 No.17006965
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>>17005346
Plugging Gower's "Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction." It's a book that doesn't presuppose almost any mathematical knowledge but treats its reader seriously. Touches on almost all the modern branches of mathematics and (most importantly) explains the general methodology of math as a field of study--what Gowers calls the abstract method. The book is short but dense; take it slowly.

After that you should follow whatever you find interesting, but a reasonable grounding in proofs (w/ something like "How to Prove It") and knowledge of calculus (there are a million books & courses) are good to have, the former so you can better understand what you're reading and the latter because calculus is the best bang for your buck: incredibly elegant but not too too hard to understand.

If you really want something pop-y maybe Matt Parker but that's like reading NGT for physics :/

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 12 02:00:36 2020 No.17006988 >>17005346 Extremely cute apu

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 12 02:03:19 2020 No.17006998 >>17005346 Godel, Escher, and Bach

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