Math Philosophy

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    • How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
    • By: Sabine Hossenfelder
    • Narrated by: Laura Jennings
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-18
    • Language: English
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    • A contrarian argues that modern physicists' obsession with beauty has given us wonderful math but bad science....

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    • The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
    • By: Charles Seife
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 202 ratings
    • In Zero, science journalist Charles Seife follows this innocent-looking number from its birth as an Eastern philosophical concept to its struggle for acceptance in Europe, its rise and transcendence in the West, and its ever-present threat to modern physics....

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    • The New Psychology of Success
    • By: Carol S. Dweck PhD
    • Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
    • Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 02-19-19
    • Language: English
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    • World-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol S. Dweck offers new insights into her now famous and broadly embraced concept. She introduces a phenomenon she calls false growth mindset and guides people toward adopting a deeper, truer growth mindset....

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    • The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else
    • By: Jordan Ellenberg
    • Narrated by: Jordan Ellenberg
    • Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 124 ratings
    • From the New York Times best-selling author of How Not to Be Wrong - himself a world-class geometer - comes a far-ranging exploration of the power of geometry, which turns out to help us think better about practically everything....

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    • How Modern Math Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets
    • By: Graham Farmelo
    • Narrated by: Hugh Kermode
    • Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 290 ratings
    • One of the great insights of science is that the universe has an underlying order. The supreme goal of physicists is to understand this order through laws that describe the behavior of the most basic particles and the forces between them....

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    • And Other STEM Delusions
    • By: Andrew Hacker
    • Narrated by: Barry Press
    • Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Andrew Hacker's New York Times op-ed questioning the requirement of advanced mathematics in our schools instantly became one of the paper's most-circulated articles....

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    • The Greatest Mystery in Physics
    • By: Amir D. Aczel
    • Narrated by: Henry Leyva
    • Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-02
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 511 ratings
    • Will "beam me up, Scotty" become reality? Quantum mechanics suggests it may...and soon...

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    • A Secret World of Intuition and Curiosity
    • By: David Bessis, Kevin Frey - translator
    • Narrated by: Mike Lenz
    • Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Math has a reputation for being inaccessible. People think that it requires a special gift or that comprehension is a matter of genes. Yet, the greatest mathematicians throughout history, from Rene Descartes to Alexander Grothendieck, have insisted that this is not the case.

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    • How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)
    • By: Barbara Oakley PhD
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 10-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 161 ratings
    • Whether you are a student struggling to fulfill a math or science requirement, or you are embarking on a career change that requires a new skill set, A Mind for Numbers offers the tools you need to get a better grasp of that intimidating material....

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    • A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found
    • By: Violet Moller
    • Narrated by: Susan Duerden
    • Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 106 ratings
    • After the Fall of Rome, when many of the great ideas of the ancient world were lost to the ravages of the Dark Ages, three crucial manuscripts passed hand to hand through seven Mediterranean cities and survived to fuel the revival of the Renaissance - an exciting debut history....

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    • Excursions to the Edge of Thought
    • By: Jim Holt
    • Narrated by: David Stifel
    • Length: 15 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-18
    • Language: English
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    • From Jim Holt, New York Times best-selling author, comes this entertaining and accessible audiobook guide to the most profound scientific and mathematical ideas of recent centuries....

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    • The Story of the NASA Men and Women Who Flew the Forty-Year Voyager Mission
    • By: Jim Bell
    • Narrated by: Jim Bell
    • Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 02-24-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 325 ratings
    • The story of the men and women who drove the Voyager spacecraft mission, told by a scientist who was there from the beginning....

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    • How Science and Math Are Taking the Luck out of Gambling
    • By: Adam Kucharski
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 02-24-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 81 ratings
    • Adam Kucharski reveals the long and tangled history between betting and science and explains why gambling continues to generate insights into luck and decision making today....

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    • Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation
    • By: Cathy O'Neil
    • Narrated by: Cathy O'Neil
    • Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • Shame is a powerful and sometimes useful tool: When we publicly shame corrupt politicians, abusive celebrities, or predatory corporations, we reinforce values of fairness and justice. But as Cathy O’Neil argues in this revelatory book, shaming has taken a new and dangerous turn....

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    • How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It
    • By: Daniel Knowles
    • Narrated by: Christian Coulson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • A high-octane polemic against cars—which are ruining the world, while making us unhappy and unhealthy—from a talented young writer at the Economist....

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    • By: Elena Graf
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 01-19-24
    • Language: English
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    • The new rector of St. Margaret’s by the Sea Episcopal Church has a secret. Lucille Bartlett was a rising star at the Metropolitan Opera, but she ...

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    • The Story of People and Mathematics
    • By: Mickael Launay, Stephen S. Wilson
    • Narrated by: Oliver J. Hembrough
    • Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • From Aristotle to Ada Lovelace: a brief history of the mathematical ideas that have forever changed the world and the everyday people and pioneers behind them. The story of our best invention yet....

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    • How Numbers Confuse Public Issues
    • By: Joel Best
    • Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
    • Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-14
    • Language: English
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    • More Damned Lies and Statistics encourages all of us to think in a more sophisticated and skeptical manner about how statistics are used to promote causes and create fear....

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