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'Superior Male Mathematical Ability'

2014-05-17 07:29:36| Toys - Topix.net

In July 1992, Mattel issued a talking Barbie doll which said various phrases that a teenager might say.

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06.17: How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking

2014-05-13 20:39:07| Powells Books Events Calendar

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 (Penguin Press), Jordan Ellenberg shows us how terribly limiting this view is: math isn't confined to abstract incidents that never occur in real life but rather touches everything we do — the whole world is shot through with it. Math-world superstar Ellenberg unveils the hidden beauty and logic of the world and puts its power in our hands.

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05.09: Struck by Genius: How a Brain Injury Made Me a Mathematical Marvel

2014-04-16 00:34:59| Powells Books Events Calendar

No one sees the world as Jason Padgett does. Water pours from the faucet in crystalline patterns, numbers call to mind distinct geometric shapes, and intricate fractal patterns emerge from the movement of tree branches — revealing the intrinsic mathematical designs hidden in the objects around us. Padgett wasn't born this way. Twelve years ago, he had never made it past pre-algebra, but a violent mugging forever altered the way his brain works. The first documented case of acquired savant syndrome with mathematical synesthesia, Padgett is a medical marvel. Struck by Genius (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) is the remarkable story of an ordinary man whose world was transformed when a traumatic brain injury left him with an extraordinary mathematical gift.

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