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Half a century ago the British scientist and novelist C. P. Snow bemoaned the estrangement of what he termed the “two cultures” in modern society — the literary and the scientific. These days, there is some reason to celebrate better communication between these domains, if only because of the increasingly visible salience of scientific ideas. Still a gap remains, and so I’d like here to take an oblique look at a few lesser-known contrasts and divisions between subdomains of the two cultures, specifically those between stories and statistics.
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Related books:
Once Upon A Number: The Hidden Mathematical Logic Of Stories
Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
