Do you know the old IT/electronics saying that "only intelligent one understand that 1+1 is equal to 10"? Well you might be forgiven for not knowing binary but the problem of illiteracy and especially mathematical type of it is widespread and frankly speaking quite disturbing. Sure, what would a phi...
Quite an interesting read.
Quite an interesting read.
not as funny as i imagined it. sometimes even dull
I'm moving on. Call this read. Maybe nobody will notice that it isn't.But it has made me discuss humour with people and I've been given some great ideas along the way. And I would like to preserve bits and pieces here.My mother said that when we were little we were really funny but that other kids a...
I've always felt that one of the really big philosophical questions concerns the nature of humour. What is humour? What purpose, if any, does it serve? Why are some things funny, and others not? I've thought about this stuff, on and off, for ages. The other day, I was poking around on Google and stu...
It's me, over here in the choir robes. Nothing in this book I didn't already embrace, I mean. The geeky mathematical angle was a huge bonus. I found this audio book fun, funny and comforting. If you like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing you like. And I do.
Going beyondInnumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences to talk about math and what it means.
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