Ranked: The Style of Math

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.  


  1. The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't by Nate Silver
  2. Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters by Steven Pinker
  3. Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
  4. Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein
  5. Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Philip E. Tetlock, and Dan Gardner
  6. Euclid in the Rainforest: Discovering Universal Truth in Logic and Math by Joseph Mazur
  7. The Blank Swan: The End of Probability by Elie Ayache
  8. [Upcoming] Understanding Knowledge by Michael Huemer