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Math as a perspective on life (with Marcus du Sautoy)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
The Power of Mathematical Thinking
This book was a counter to my previous book, which was about artificial intelligence and creativity. I argued that sometimes a computer won't mind doing the kind of long, hard, luxurious, boring way of answering a problem because it doesn't get tired whilst we get tired. So for me, that's the sort of mindset I'm trying to achieve in this book is to step back,. don't do the hard work of adding up numbers to a hundred. That's boring and you're going to make mistakes. But there are some simpler things which kind of illustrate the power of this kind of mathematical way of thinking of the world.
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