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Humorous Anecdotes
Customers are highly amused by the author's presentation of various math problems throughout history with a delightful sense of humor. The book is engaging, accessible, and entertaining for readers from diverse backgrounds.
Tragic Outcomes
Customers generally find the book entertaining and enlightening, sharing stories of tragic outcomes caused by mathematical errors. They appreciate the reminder that even those skilled in mathematics can make mistakes with serious consequences.
Plain Language Explanations
Customers generally have a positive sentiment towards the plain language explanations in the book, with many praising its approachability and readability for those who may not consider themselves mathematicians. However, some readers found certain sections repetitive or lacking in depth.
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Institutional Mistakes
Customers have a generally positive opinion about the book's exploration of institutional mistakes in mathematics and math intensive fields. The book provides interesting anecdotes on errors made by individuals and systems, highlighting their impact ranging from trivial to catastrophic. Some readers found it relatable due to their own experiences with mathematical errors or programming issues. However, a few customers noted that the focus on Excel's error propensity could have been expanded to include other software and tools used in quantitative fields without proper training.
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Quality
Excel can be coded to be readable and self-documented and peer reviewable.
Very easy to read, small digestible sections that all add up to some wonderful numerical insights that surrounds us every day.
And the little jokes he makes are clearly made with a smug look on his face.
The author’s analysis of excel’s error propensity omits that professional programmers are trained best practices and gotchas wh... Read More
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I'm just glad none of my mistakes has ever cost someone else their life.
Just give each citizen a million bucks'.
Competitiveness
The best thought i have is to say that the core math issues are the tab on the beer can i open in the luddite's guide to techno... Read More
Most of the errors seem to be computer-based, or better yet, microsoft excel-based.
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- This product had a total of 1,849 reviews as of our last analysis date on Sep 17 2024.
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I would advise any sensitive readers to skip the section called “doors of death” which contains some tragic stories i can’t get out of my head weeks after reading
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I am not advanced in math although i did well in high school and the couple college classes i took
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The short stories broken into sections lend themselves to both shorter and longer reading sections
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A wonder tour of the sometimes humourous sometimes horrific ways bad math can affect our lives
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For some those memories are good and enjoyable for others the memories are akin to torture for still others the memories fall somewhere in between
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Wherever you fall on the math is awesome to math is torture spectrum i think we can all agree that mathematics affects many many aspects of our lives even when we are not the ones going the math
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And just as students who are first learning mathematics sometimes there are mistakes
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Some of the mistakes had effects that were relatively minor causing only setbacks and headaches while others were much larger effects causing immense damage and loss of life
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