How not to be wrong. The power of mathematical thinking

MaRDI QIDQ2936334zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Jordan S. Ellenberg

Publication date 15 December 2014

zbMATH Keywords

politicspopular mathematicsprobabilitystatistics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Popularization of mathematics (00A09) Linear inference, regression (62Jxx)

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