THE MISCHIEF
OF MATH
Short stories of clowns, contortionists, and court-jesters
CONTENTS
When Pigs Fly: Scientific Experimentation & Cascading Errors
Ultra-Altruism: Economic Stability
Fakebook: Fake Data, Privacy & Signalling Games
Deadly Serious Party: Political Establishment
The Forever Virus: Hypothesizing
Ending the Forever Virus: Policy & Deployment
Explosive Logic: Logical Fallacies
CONcrete Evidence: Number Tricks
Existential Overload: Morality & Ethics in AI bots
Blue Album: Applied Mathematics
Infinity and Beyond: Abstract Mathematics
Readership
All undergraduate and students in the second half of high school, particularly in the fields of mathematics, computer science, engineering, economics, business, political science, and social science; General public who are curious about the intricacies and counterintuitive nature of reality.
DISCOUNT CODE
MATHMISCHIEF30
our love letter to the curious minds of the world
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