Publication Date:
2016-10-08
Description:
Given the near-constant drumbeat promoting the promise of "Moneyball" methods, "data-mining" algorithms, and statistical models, one might argue that there is no need to defend mathematics in the early 21st century. Yet Steven Connor's Living by Numbers: In Defence of Quantity opens with the assertion that the "strength and prevalence" of an "anti-numerical animus" is "remarkable." His response, in this erudite and wide-ranging book, to those who lament the expansion of numerical methods into the humanities is that they fail to realize the degree to which math has been there all along. Author: Christopher J. Phillips
Keywords:
Mathematics
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Geosciences
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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