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pt. I. Our world of math and numbers. Introduction -- We use numbers here, there and everywhere -- Numbers are some of my favorite things -- pt. II. The first world of math: the eternal truths of math. Linking numbers: operations on numbers -- Words and numbers: being careful -- Writing really big and really small numbers, and those in-between -- Touching all bases, at times with logs -- Numbers need to be exact, but it ain't necessarily so -- The different types of numbers have not evolved, but our understanding of them has -- Really, really big and really, really small numbers -- The whole truth of whole numbers -- pt. III. The second world of math: The math of doing. The math of the digital world: modular arithmetic (or using number leftovers) -- The math of what will be: progressions of growth and decay -- Untangling the worlds of probability and statistics -- The math of what might be: probability -- What are the odds? -- The math of what was: statistics -- The good, the bad, and the evil -- The math of big data -- pt. IV. The third world of math: the math of making decisions and winning. -- The math of optimization, ranking, voting, and allocation -- The math of gaming -- The math of risk -- Closing thoughts.
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