This is a subjective Ranked version of Intriguing Connections: The Style of Math
Math has a history. A philosophy. A beauty. An ugliness. Practice applications and their consequences. This list bring the book that bring math to the reader. To make it understandable, or show how it is not understandable.
- The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't by Nate Silver
- Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters by Brian Klaas
- Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters by Steven Pinker
- Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
- Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein
- Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Philip E. Tetlock, and Dan Gardner
- Euclid in the Rainforest: Discovering Universal Truth in Logic and Math by Joseph Mazur
- The Blank Swan: The End of Probability by Elie Ayache
- [Upcoming] Understanding Knowledge by Michael Huemer
Reference
- The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World by David Deutsch
- The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya
