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Mathematics Book Summaries

Complexity Summary
Complexity
A Guided Tour
by Melanie Mitchell 2009 368 pages
4.11
3k+ ratings
Science
Mathematics
Physics
The Art of Strategy Summary
The Art of Strategy
A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life
by Avinash K. Dixit 2008 512 pages
3.80
4k+ ratings
Business
Economics
Psychology
Statistics for Dummies Summary
Statistics for Dummies
by Deborah J. Rumsey 2003 384 pages
3.67
500+ ratings
Mathematics
Science
Reference
The Signal and the Noise Summary
The Signal and the Noise
Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't
by Nate Silver 2012 883 pages
3.97
50k+ ratings
Science
Business
Economics
Naked Statistics Summary
Naked Statistics
Stripping the Dread from the Data
by Charles Wheelan 2013 302 pages
3.95
14k+ ratings
Science
Business
Mathematics
Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future Summary
Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future
The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers
by John MacCormick 2012 232 pages
3.88
1k+ ratings
Computer Science
Science
Technology
The Tiger That Isn't Summary
The Tiger That Isn't
Seeing Through a World of Numbers
by Andrew Blastland and Michael Dilnot 2007 256 pages
3.93
500+ ratings
Science
Economics
Mathematics
The Norm Chronicles Summary
The Norm Chronicles
Stories and Numbers about Danger
by Michael Blastland 2013 336 pages
3.59
500+ ratings
Science
Mathematics
Popular Science
Chaos Summary
Chaos
Making a New Science
by James Gleick 2008 384 pages
4.03
38k+ ratings
Science
Physics
Mathematics
Speed Math for Kids Summary
Speed Math for Kids
The Fast, Fun Way To Do Basic Calculations
by Bill Handley 2007 256 pages
3.99
100+ ratings
Mathematics
Education
Six Degrees Summary
Six Degrees
The Science of a Connected Age
by Duncan J. Watts 2004 384 pages
3.9
1k+ ratings
Science
Sociology
Mathematics
Feyman's Tips on Physics Summary
Feyman's Tips on Physics
A Problem-Solving Supplement to The Feynman Lectures on Physics
by Richard P. Feynman 2013 208 pages
4.23
100+ ratings
Physics
Science
Textbooks
Against the Gods Summary
Against the Gods
The Remarkable Story of Risk
by Peter L. Bernstein 1998 400 pages
3.96
13k+ ratings
Finance
History
Business
Speed Mathematics Summary
Speed Mathematics
Secrets of Lightning Mental Calculation
by Bill Handley 2014 320 pages
3.99
100+ ratings
Mathematics
Education
The Flaw of Averages Summary
The Flaw of Averages
Why We Underestimate Risk in the Face of Uncertainty
by Sam L. Savage 2009 416 pages
3.86
500+ ratings
Business
Science
Mathematics
How Not to Be Wrong Summary
How Not to Be Wrong
The Power of Mathematical Thinking
by Jordan Ellenberg 2014 480 pages
3.95
20k+ ratings
Science
Mathematics
Psychology
Vedic Mathematics Made Easy Summary
Vedic Mathematics Made Easy
by Dhaval Bathia 2015 264 pages
4.04
100+ ratings
Mathematics
A Mind for Numbers Summary
A Mind for Numbers
How to Excel at Math and Science
by Barbara Oakley 2014 336 pages
4.2
20k+ ratings
Science
Self Help
Mathematics
Guesstimation Summary
Guesstimation
Solving the World's Problems on the Back of a Cocktail Napkin
by Lawrence Weinstein 2008 320 pages
3.73
100+ ratings
Science
Mathematics
Business
Rock, Paper, Scissors Summary
Rock, Paper, Scissors
Game Theory in Everyday Life
by Len Fisher 2008 278 pages
3.42
1k+ ratings
Science
Mathematics
Psychology
Damned Lies and Statistics Summary
Damned Lies and Statistics
Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists
by Joel Best 2012 224 pages
3.75
500+ ratings
Politics
Science
Mathematics
Sync Summary
Sync
by Steven H. Strogatz 2004 351 pages
4.07
3k+ ratings
Science
Mathematics
Physics
The Power of Vedic Maths Summary
The Power of Vedic Maths
by Atul Gupta 2016 180 pages
4.06
100+ ratings
Mathematics
Heuristics and Biases Summary
Heuristics and Biases
The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment
by Thomas Gilovich 2002 882 pages
4.39
100+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Economics
Practical Statistics for Data Scientists Summary
Practical Statistics for Data Scientists
50 Essential Concepts
by Peter Bruce 2017 318 pages
4.02
100+ ratings
Computer Science
Mathematics
Science
Essential Poker Math, Expanded Edition Summary
Essential Poker Math, Expanded Edition
Fundamental No-Limit Hold'em Mathematics You Need to Know
by Alton Hardin 2016 277 pages
4.19
500+ ratings
Games
Mathematics
Once Upon an Algorithm Summary
Once Upon an Algorithm
How Stories Explain Computing
by Martin Erwig 2017 336 pages
3.66
100+ ratings
Computer Science
Science
Programming
The Art of Logic in an Illogical World Summary
The Art of Logic in an Illogical World
by Eugenia Cheng 2018 320 pages
3.48
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
Science
Mathematics
The Art of Statistics Summary
The Art of Statistics
Learning from Data
by David Spiegelhalter 2019 448 pages
4.17
4k+ ratings
Science
Mathematics
Business
The Drunkard's Walk Summary
The Drunkard's Walk
How Randomness Rules Our Lives
by Leonard Mlodinow 2008 317 pages
3.95
23k+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Mathematics
A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market Summary
A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market
by John Allen Paulos 2007 226 pages
3.47
500+ ratings
Finance
Mathematics
Economics
The Numbers Game Summary
The Numbers Game
The Commonsense Guide to Understanding Numbers in the News,in Politics, and in Life
by Michael Blastland 2010 224 pages
3.65
100+ ratings
Mathematics
Science
Economics
Calculated Risks Summary
Calculated Risks
How to Know When Numbers Deceive You
by Gerd Gigerenzer 2015 357 pages
3.98
500+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Mathematics
Practical Statistics for Data Scientists Summary
Practical Statistics for Data Scientists
50+ Essential Concepts Using R and Python
by Peter Bruce 2020 360 pages
4.3
100+ ratings
Programming
Technical
Computer Science
What's Math Got to Do with It? Summary
What's Math Got to Do with It?
How Teachers and Parents Can Transform Mathematics Learning and Inspire Success
by Jo Boaler 2015 218 pages
4.40
500+ ratings
Education
Mathematics
Teaching
How to Study for a Mathematics Degree Summary
How to Study for a Mathematics Degree
by Lara Alcock 2012 256 pages
4.06
100+ ratings
Mathematics
Academic
Self Help
What Is Relativity? Summary
What Is Relativity?
An Intuitive Introduction to Einstein's Ideas, and Why They Matter
by Jeffrey O. Bennett 2014 204 pages
4.32
500+ ratings
Science
Physics
Astronomy
Alex's Adventures in Numberland Summary
Alex's Adventures in Numberland
Dispatches from the Wonderful World of Mathematics
by Alex Bellos 2010 448 pages
4.11
5k+ ratings
Science
Mathematics
Physics
Can You Solve My Problems? Summary
Can You Solve My Problems?
A Casebook of Ingenious, Perplexing and Totally Satisfying Puzzles
by Alex Bellos 2016 288 pages
4.02
100+ ratings
Puzzles
Mathematics
Science
Infinite Powers Summary
Infinite Powers
How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
by Steven H. Strogatz 2019 389 pages
4.3
6k+ ratings
Science
Mathematics
History
Chancing It Summary
Chancing It
The Laws of Chance and How They Can Work for You
by Robert Matthews 2017 304 pages
3.79
100+ ratings
Science
Mathematics
Building Winning Algorithmic Trading Systems Summary
Building Winning Algorithmic Trading Systems
A Trader's Journey from Data Mining to Monte Carlo Simulation to Live Trading
by Kevin J. Davey 2014 288 pages
4.05
100+ ratings
Finance
Business
Mathematics
How to Lie with Statistics Summary
How to Lie with Statistics
by Darrell Huff 1993 144 pages
3.84
16k+ ratings
Science
Business
Mathematics
Fermat's Last Theorem Summary
Fermat's Last Theorem
by Simon Singh 2012 368 pages
4.29
31k+ ratings
Science
Mathematics
History
The Idea Factory Summary
The Idea Factory
Learning to Think at MIT
by Pepper White 2001 328 pages
3.83
100+ ratings
Education
Science
Biography
Weapons of Math Destruction Summary
Weapons of Math Destruction
How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
by Cathy O'Neil 2016 272 pages
3.88
28k+ ratings
Science
Technology
Politics
The Quants Summary
The Quants
How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It
by Scott Patterson 2010 352 pages
3.88
8k+ ratings
Finance
Business
Economics
The Quants Summary
The Quants
How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It
by Scott Patterson 2010 352 pages
3.88
8k+ ratings
Finance
Business
Economics
Innumeracy Summary
Innumeracy
Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences
by John Allen Paulos 2011 209 pages
3.78
5k+ ratings
Mathematics
Science
Psychology
Irreligion Summary
Irreligion
A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up
by John Allen Paulos 2008 176 pages
3.66
2k+ ratings
Atheism
Science
Philosophy
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