Author： Jordan Ellenberg

Publisher： Penguin Press HC

The math we learn in school can seem like a dull set of rules， laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned. In How Not to Be Wrong， Jordan Ellenberg shows us how terribly limiting this view is： Math isn't confined to abstract incidents that never occur in real life， but rather touches everything we do -- the whole world is shot through with it.

學(xué)校里所學(xué)的數(shù)學(xué)就像是一套沉悶的規(guī)則，很早就被約定俗成且不容置疑。在本書里，作者向人們展示了這種想法的巨大局限性：數(shù)學(xué)并不局限于不會(huì)在現(xiàn)實(shí)生活中出現(xiàn)的抽象事件，而是跟所有的事情都息息相關(guān)——整個(gè)世界都貫穿著數(shù)學(xué)。