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Nature and Science August 2020
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All Things Being Equal : Why Math Is the Key to a Better World
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John Mighton
In All Things Being Equal, Mighton argues that math study is an ideal starting point to break down social inequality and empower individuals to build a smarter, kinder, more equitable world. Bringing together the latest cognitive research and incremental learning strategies, Mighton goes deep into the classroom and beyond to offer a hopeful--and urgent--vision for a numerate society.
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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
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Cathy O'Neil
What it's about: Big Data's capacity for reinforcing and exacerbating existing social inequalities, due to its scale and lack of transparency.
About the author: Mathematician Cathy O'Neil was a professor and a Wall Street quantitative analyst before becoming a blogger and activist.
You might also like: Shoshana Zuboff's The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Virginia Eubanks' Automating Inequality, or John Cheney-Lippold's We Are Data.
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Genius at play : the curious mind of John Horton Conway
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Siobhan Roberts
A science and mathematics writer takes readers inside the eccentric world of the inventor of the Game of Life, a beloved teacher at Princeton University since 1987 whose many contributions to game theory, know theory, number theory, coding theory, group theory and geometry are legendary. By the author of King of Infinite Space.
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