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Summaries

8 Book
Stephen M. Stigler
Harvard UP, 2016
8 Book

The Book of Why

The New Science of Cause and Effect
Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie
Basic Books, 2018
9 Book

The Great Unknown

Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science
Marcus du Sautoy
Viking, 2017
Book

Weapons of Math Destruction

How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Cathy O'Neil
Crown, 2016
8 Book
Persi Diaconis and Brian Skyrms
Princeton UP, 2017
8 Article

Retire Statistical Significance

Valentin Amrhein, Sander Greenland, Blake McShane and more than 800 signatories call for an end to hyped claims and the dismissal of possibly crucial effects.
Valentin Amrhein et al.
Nature, 2019
10 Book

The Ethical Algorithm

The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design
Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth
Oxford UP, 2019
Book

x + y

A Mathematician’s Manifesto for Rethinking Gender
Eugenia Cheng
Basic Books, 2020
9 Book

Making Up Your Own Mind

Thinking Effectively Through Creative Puzzle-Solving
Edward B. Burger
Princeton UP, 2019
8 Book

How Not to Be Wrong

The Power of Mathematical Thinking
Jordan Ellenberg
Penguin, 2015
8 Book

Naked Statistics

Stripping the Dread from the Data
Charles Wheelan
W.W. Norton, 2013