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MathBabe's Little Grad School Secret

However many reviews of Jordan Ellenberg's How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking you've read, you'll want to cast your eyes over one more: Cathy O'Neil's.

As becomes clear in the first paragraph of O'Neil's mathbabe post about the book, she and Ellenberg are friends. But that doesn't mean O'Neil pulls her punches. Though her review contains its share of glowing praise, O'Neil also takes issue with a few of Ellenberg's points. Then she wraps it all up with testimony about how How Not to Be Wrong has changed her son's afternoon snacking ritual.

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Start Date: 
Thursday, June 26, 2014