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Around the World in Eighty Games
- From Tarot to Tic-Tac-Toe, Catan to Chutes and Ladders, a Mathematician Unlocks the Secrets of the World's Greatest Games
- Auteur(s): Marcus du Sautoy
- Narrateur(s): Mark Elstob
- Durée: 12 h et 36 min
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“A delightful global tour of how humans think and play, led by one of our finest mathematical storytellers.” — Ben Orlin, author of Math Games with Bad Drawings Where should you move first in Connect 4? What is the best property in Monopoly? And how can pi help you win rock paper scissors?...
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Great book
- Écrit par Matt le 2023-12-17
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Fooled by Randomness
- The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
- Auteur(s): Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Narrateur(s): Sean Pratt
- Durée: 10 h et 3 min
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This audiobook is about luck, or more precisely, how we perceive and deal with luck in life and business....
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9 hours of mindless blabbering
- Écrit par Bryden Panchyshyn le 2019-04-04
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The Misbehavior of Markets
- A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence
- Auteur(s): Benoit Mandelbrot, Richard L Hudson
- Narrateur(s): Jason Olazabal
- Durée: 10 h et 6 min
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A groundbreaking mathematician presents a new model for understanding financial markets. Benoit B. Mandelbrot, one of the century's most influential mathematicians, is world-famous for making mathematical sense of a fact everybody knows but that geometers from Euclid on down had never...
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Very Good
- Écrit par Cal le 2021-01-23
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Freakonomics
- Revised Edition
- Auteur(s): Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
- Narrateur(s): Stephen J. Dubner
- Durée: 7 h et 51 min
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The legendary bestseller that encouraged millions of readers to look at the hidden side of everything Which is more dangerous: a gun or a swimming pool? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? What do real estate agents and the KKK have in common? These may not sound like typical...
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Only For Young People
- Écrit par Zane Gates le 2021-01-28
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How the World Really Works
- The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
- Auteur(s): Vaclav Smil
- Narrateur(s): Stephen Perring
- Durée: 10 h et 7 min
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A new masterpiece from one of my favorite authors… [How The World Really Works] is a compelling and highly readable book that leaves readers with the fundamental grounding needed to help solve the world’s toughest challenges.”—Bill Gates ...
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How the World Really Works [For Oligarchs]
- Écrit par CoreDev le 2024-04-14
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Math Without Numbers
- Auteur(s): Milo Beckman
- Narrateur(s): Soneela Nankani
- Durée: 3 h et 53 min
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An audio tour of the structures and patterns we call "math" This is an audiobook about math, but it contains no numbers. Math Without Numbers is a vivid, conversational, and wholly original guide to the three main branches of abstract math—topology, analysis, and algebra—which turn out to be...
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A wonderful book about everything
- Écrit par Efik le 2025-01-05
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Around the World in Eighty Games
- From Tarot to Tic-Tac-Toe, Catan to Chutes and Ladders, a Mathematician Unlocks the Secrets of the World's Greatest Games
- Auteur(s): Marcus du Sautoy
- Narrateur(s): Mark Elstob
- Durée: 12 h et 36 min
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“A delightful global tour of how humans think and play, led by one of our finest mathematical storytellers.” — Ben Orlin, author of Math Games with Bad Drawings Where should you move first in Connect 4? What is the best property in Monopoly? And how can pi help you win rock paper scissors?...
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Great book
- Écrit par Matt le 2023-12-17
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Fooled by Randomness
- The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
- Auteur(s): Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Narrateur(s): Sean Pratt
- Durée: 10 h et 3 min
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This audiobook is about luck, or more precisely, how we perceive and deal with luck in life and business....
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9 hours of mindless blabbering
- Écrit par Bryden Panchyshyn le 2019-04-04
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The Misbehavior of Markets
- A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence
- Auteur(s): Benoit Mandelbrot, Richard L Hudson
- Narrateur(s): Jason Olazabal
- Durée: 10 h et 6 min
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Au global28
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Performance22
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Histoire22
A groundbreaking mathematician presents a new model for understanding financial markets. Benoit B. Mandelbrot, one of the century's most influential mathematicians, is world-famous for making mathematical sense of a fact everybody knows but that geometers from Euclid on down had never...
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Very Good
- Écrit par Cal le 2021-01-23
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Freakonomics
- Revised Edition
- Auteur(s): Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
- Narrateur(s): Stephen J. Dubner
- Durée: 7 h et 51 min
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Au global317
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Performance249
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Histoire248
The legendary bestseller that encouraged millions of readers to look at the hidden side of everything Which is more dangerous: a gun or a swimming pool? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? What do real estate agents and the KKK have in common? These may not sound like typical...
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Only For Young People
- Écrit par Zane Gates le 2021-01-28
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How the World Really Works
- The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
- Auteur(s): Vaclav Smil
- Narrateur(s): Stephen Perring
- Durée: 10 h et 7 min
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Au global147
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Performance123
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Histoire122
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A new masterpiece from one of my favorite authors… [How The World Really Works] is a compelling and highly readable book that leaves readers with the fundamental grounding needed to help solve the world’s toughest challenges.”—Bill Gates ...
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How the World Really Works [For Oligarchs]
- Écrit par CoreDev le 2024-04-14
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Math Without Numbers
- Auteur(s): Milo Beckman
- Narrateur(s): Soneela Nankani
- Durée: 3 h et 53 min
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An audio tour of the structures and patterns we call "math" This is an audiobook about math, but it contains no numbers. Math Without Numbers is a vivid, conversational, and wholly original guide to the three main branches of abstract math—topology, analysis, and algebra—which turn out to be...
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A wonderful book about everything
- Écrit par Efik le 2025-01-05
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The Impossible Man
- Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius
- Auteur(s): Patchen Barss
- Narrateur(s): Jonathan Beville
- Durée: 11 h et 33 min
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Both erudite and poetic, The Impossible Man draws on years of research and interviews, as well as previously unopened archives to present a moving portrait of Penrose the Nobel Prize-winning scientist and Roger the human being.
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The Art of Logic in an Illogical World
- Auteur(s): Eugenia Cheng
- Narrateur(s): Moira Quirk
- Durée: 9 h et 22 min
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How both logical and emotional reasoning can help us live better in our post-truth world In a world where fake news stories change election outcomes, has rationality become futile? In The Art of Logic in an Illogical World, Eugenia Cheng throws a lifeline to readers drowning in the illogic of...
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Factfulness
- Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World - and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
- Auteur(s): Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Ola Rosling
- Narrateur(s): Richard Harries
- Durée: 8 h et 51 min
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Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of carrying only opinions for which you have strong supporting facts....
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Helping you clear your head of the NOISE.
- Écrit par Anthony I le 2018-11-30
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Hidden Games
- The Surprising Power of Game Theory to Explain Irrational Human Behavior
- Auteur(s): Erez Yoeli, Moshe Hoffman
- Narrateur(s): Gary Tiedemann
- Durée: 10 h et 41 min
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Two MIT economists show how game theory—the ultimate theory of rationality—explains irrational behavior We like to think of ourselves as rational. This idea is the foundation for classical economic analysis of human behavior, including the awesome achievements...
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Robin Hood Math
- Take Control of the Algorithms That Run Your Life
- Auteur(s): Noah Giansiracusa
- Narrateur(s): Dan Bittner
- Durée: 5 h et 57 min
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How the rich and powerful use math to exploit you, and what you can do to beat them at their own game Everything we do today is recorded as data that's sold to the highest bidder. Plugging our personal data into impersonal algorithms has made government agencies more efficient and tech...
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The Half-life of Facts
- Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date
- Auteur(s): Samuel Arbesman
- Narrateur(s): Sean Pratt
- Durée: 7 h et 54 min
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Whatwe know about the world is constantly changing. But it turns out there’s an order to the state of knowledge, an explanation for how we know what we know....
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A very well formulated thesis
- Écrit par j & b le 2025-04-19
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Numerology and Astrology for Beginners
- A Soul's Journey Through the Magical World of Numbers, Zodiac Signs, Horoscopes and Self-Discovery
- Auteur(s): Crystal Hathaway
- Narrateur(s): Whitney Ann Jenkins
- Durée: 3 h et 14 min
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Do you sometimes question if you are on the right path or if you are wasting your time on something you are not supposed to do? Do you repeatedly see numbers all around you? Listen to find out more....
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Robotic
- Écrit par Matthew Mingo Millar le 2025-03-04
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Hello World
- Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
- Auteur(s): Hannah Fry
- Narrateur(s): Hannah Fry
- Durée: 6 h et 51 min
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Hello World takes us on a tour through the good, the bad, and the downright ugly of the algorithms that surround us on a daily basis. Mathematician Hannah Fry reveals their inner workings, showing us how algorithms are written and implemented, and more....
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Really level headed book about algorithms
- Écrit par Paul R. le 2022-11-25
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Our Mathematical Universe
- My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
- Auteur(s): Max Tegmark
- Narrateur(s): Rob Shapiro
- Durée: 15 h et 22 min
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Max Tegmark leads us on an astonishing journey through past, present and future, and through the physics, astronomy and mathematics that are the foundation of his work, most particularly his hypothesis that our physical reality is a mathematical structure and his theory of the ultimate...
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A deeply engaging look at our universe(s).
- Écrit par Allan le 2018-07-01
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Zero
- The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
- Auteur(s): Charles Seife
- Narrateur(s): Bob Souer
- Durée: 6 h et 25 min
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In Zero, science journalist Charles Seife follows this innocent-looking number from its birth as an Eastern philosophical concept to its struggle for acceptance in Europe, its rise and transcendence in the West, and its ever-present threat to modern physics....
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Very interesting
- Écrit par Jozef le 2024-01-29
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Speed
- How It Explains the World
- Auteur(s): Vaclav Smil
- Narrateur(s): Joe Jameson
- Durée: 9 h
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A data-driven, scientific account of our need for speed—exploring a wide range of topics including evolution, transportation, and technology In a world obsessed with efficiency, perhaps nothing is valued as highly as being fast. Some of our greatest achievements include building planes that...
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The Art of Strategy
- A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life
- Auteur(s): Barry J. Nalebuff, Avinash K. Dixit
- Narrateur(s): Matthew Dudley
- Durée: 17 h et 2 min
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Game theory means rigorous strategic thinking. It’s the art of anticipating your opponent’s next moves, knowing full well that your rival is trying to do the same thing to you....
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Just get the print version
- Écrit par Amanda le 2018-08-08
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Proof
- The Art and Science of Certainty
- Auteur(s): Adam Kucharski
- Narrateur(s): Nathaniel Priestley
- Durée: 9 h et 43 min
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An award-winning mathematician—he "made me smile and made me feel clever" (Peter Frankopan)—shows how we prove what’s true, and what to do when we can’t How do we establish what we believe? And how can we be certain that what we believe is true? And how do we convince other people that...
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Who Gets What - And Why
- The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design
- Auteur(s): Alvin E. Roth
- Narrateur(s): Peter Berkrot
- Durée: 7 h et 41 min
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A Nobel laureate reveals the often surprising rules that govern a vast array of activities - both mundane and life-changing - in which money may play little or no role....
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The Cloud of Unknowing
- Auteur(s): Evelyn Underhill, Chirag Patel
- Narrateur(s): Chirag Patel
- Durée: 5 h et 8 min
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In the middle ages, Christianity shared much with Buddhism and other Eastern philosophies. Listen to learn how Christian mystics came to the same conclusions as those from very different faiths.
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How Not to Be Wrong
- The Power of Mathematical Thinking
- Auteur(s): Jordan Ellenberg
- Narrateur(s): Jordan Ellenberg
- Durée: 13 h et 29 min
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The Freakonomics of math—a math-world superstar unveils the hidden beauty and logic of the world and puts its power in our hands The math we learn in school can seem like a dull set of rules, laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned. In How Not to Be Wrong, Jordan Ellenberg shows us...
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Meant for general public, slow to get to point
- Écrit par Steven le 2021-05-11
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Naked Statistics
- Stripping the Dread from the Data
- Auteur(s): Charles Wheelan
- Narrateur(s): Jonathan Davis
- Durée: 10 h et 48 min
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Once considered tedious, the field of statistics is rapidly evolving into a discipline Hal Varian, chief economist at Google, has actually called "sexy"....
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narrow minded
- Écrit par Haithem M. Abdelaty le 2021-07-15
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Unequal
- The Math of When Things Do and Don't Add Up
- Auteur(s): Eugenia Cheng
- Narrateur(s): Eugenia Cheng
- Durée: 12 h et 56 min
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Why the familiar equal sign isn’t just a marker of sameness but a gateway into math’s—and humanity’s—most profound questions Math is famous for its equations: 1 + 1 = 2, a2 + b2 = c2, or y = mx + b. Much of the time it can seem like that’s all mathematics is: following steps to show...
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Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics, Grades K-12
- 14 Teaching Practices for Enhancing Learning
- Auteur(s): Peter Liljedahl
- Narrateur(s): Marlin May
- Durée: 11 h et 24 min
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Sparked by observing teachers struggle to implement rich mathematics tasks to engage students in deep thinking, Peter Liljedahl has translated his 15 years of research into this practical guide on how to move toward a thinking classroom....
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Why Machines Learn
- The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI
- Auteur(s): Anil Ananthaswamy
- Narrateur(s): Rene Ruiz
- Durée: 13 h et 30 min
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A rich, narrative explanation of the mathematics that has brought us machine learning and the ongoing explosion of artificial intelligence Machine learning systems are making life-altering decisions for us: approving mortgage loans, determining whether a tumour is cancerous, or deciding whether...
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Waves in an Impossible Sea
- How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean
- Auteur(s): Matt Strassler
- Narrateur(s): Christopher Grove
- Durée: 11 h et 31 min
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A theoretical physicist takes listeners on an awe-inspiring journey-found in "no other book" (Science)—to discover how the universe generates everything from nothing at all.
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The Drunkard's Walk
- How Randomness Rules Our Lives
- Auteur(s): Leonard Mlodinow
- Narrateur(s): Sean Pratt
- Durée: 9 h et 19 min
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Acclaimed writer and scientist Leonard Mlodinow shows us how randomness, chance, and probability reveal a tremendous amount about our daily lives....
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enlightening
- Écrit par DJS le 2021-10-05
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Six Easy Pieces
- Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
- Auteur(s): Richard P. Feynman
- Narrateur(s): Richard P. Feynman
- Durée: 5 h et 21 min
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Learn how to think like a physicist from a Nobel laureate and "one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century" (New York Review of Books) with these six classic and beloved lessons It was Richard Feynman's outrageous and scintillating method of teaching that earned him legendary status...
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A Mind for Numbers
- How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)
- Auteur(s): Barbara Oakley PhD
- Narrateur(s): Grover Gardner
- Durée: 7 h et 4 min
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The companion book to COURSERA's wildly popular massive open online course "Learning How to Learn" Whether you are a student struggling to fulfill a math or science requirement, or you are embarking on a career change that requires a new skill set, A Mind for Numbers offers the tools you need...
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Extremely valuable
- Écrit par Luis Jaimes le 2024-08-24