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How Not to Be Wrong The Power of Mathematical Thinking

Jordan Ellenberg

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No Stupid Questions

It was mentioned in relation to the story of Abraham Wald and his work on optimising the armour on US fighter planes during World War II, highlighting the importance of considering missing data.

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as he writes, the missing bullet holes were on the missing planes

— Episode: 40. Have We All Lost Our Ability to Comp...

Episode: 40. Have We All Lost Our Ability to Compromise?

It was mentioned in relation to the story of Abraham Wald and his work on optimising the armour on US fighter planes during World War II, highlighting the importance of considering missing data.

"

as he writes, the missing bullet holes were on the missing planes

Episode: 40. Have We All Lost Our Ability to Compromise?

This book was mentioned in relation to the famous story about mathematician Abraham Wald and the missing bullet holes on WWII planes, illustrating the importance of missing data.

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One is in a book by Jordan Ellenberg, who I believe is a mathematician himself. And his book is called How Not to Be Wrong.

And as he writes, the missing bullet holes were on the missing planes.

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