Coming Home to Math

We live in a world of numbers and mathematics, and so we need to work with numbers and some math in almost everything we do, to control our happiness and the direction of our lives. The purpose of Coming Home to Math is to make adults with little technical training more comfortable with math, in using it and enjoying it, and to allay their fears of math, enable their numerical thinking, and convince them that math is fun. A range of important math concepts are presented and explained in simple terms, mostly by using arithmetic, with frequent connections to the real world of personal financial matters, health, gambling, and popular culture.
As such, Coming Home to Math is geared to making the general, non-specialist, adult public more comfortable with math, though not to formally train them for new careers or to teach those first learning math. It may also be helpful to liberal arts college students who need to tackle more technical subjects. The range of topics covered may also appeal to scholars who are more math savvy, though it may not challenge them.
Contents: PrefaceOur World of Math and Numbers:IntroductionWe Use Numbers Here, There and EverywhereNumbers Are Some of My Favorite ThingsThe First World of Math: The Eternal Truths of Math:Linking Numbers: Operations on NumbersWords and Numbers: Being CarefulWriting Really Big and Really Small Numbers, and Those In-betweenTouching All Bases, At Times with LogsNumbers Need to be Exact, But It Ain't Necessarily SoThe Different Types of Numbers Have Not Evolved, But Our Understanding of Them HasReally, Really Big and Really, Really Small NumbersThe Whole Truth of Whole NumbersThe 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 DecayUntangling The Worlds of Probability and StatisticsThe Math of What Might Be: Probability — What Are the Odds?The Math of What Was: Statistics — The Good, The Bad, and The EvilThe Math of Big DataThe Third World of Math: The Math of Making Decisions and Winning:The Math of Optimization, Ranking, Voting, and AllocationThe Math of GamingThe Math of RiskClosing ThoughtsBibliographyIndex
Readership: The general, non-specialist, adult public, liberal arts students in colleges who want to transition to more technical subjects.Math;Education;Popular0Key Features:It can be understood by the general, non-specialist publicExamples in everyday life are used to illustrate points and make amusing connectionsExamples that are important to the public are presented