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A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck

by Sophie Elmhirst

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A Tale for the Time Being

by Ruth Ozeki (Goodreads Author)

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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

by George Saunders

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“A mathematician is always asking, “What assumptions are you making? And are they justified?”
― Jordan Ellenberg, How Not To Be Wrong: The Hidden Maths of Everyday

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“Knowing mathematics is like wearing a pair of X-ray specs that reveal hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of the world.”
― Jordan Ellenberg, How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking

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“A basic rule of mathematical life: if the universe hands you a hard problem, try to solve an easier one instead, and hope the simple version is close enough to the original problem that the universe doesn’t object.”
― Jordan Ellenberg, How Not To Be Wrong: The Hidden Maths of Everyday

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“Dividing one number by another is mere computation ; knowing what to divide by what is mathematics.”
― Jordan Ellenberg, How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking

tags: computation, mathematics, syllogism

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