In a world where fake news stories change election outcomes, has rationality become futile? In The Art of Logic in an Illogical World, Eugenia Cheng throws a lifeline to readers drowning in the illogic of contemporary life. Cheng is a mathematician, so she knows how to make an airtight argument. But even for her, logic sometimes falls prey to emotion, which is why she still fea...(展开全部)

逻辑推理和情感推理如何帮助我们在后真相世界中过得更好 在一个虚假新闻故事改变选举结果的世界里，理性是否变得毫无意义？在《不合逻辑世界中的逻辑艺术》一书中，Eugenia Cheng 为淹没在当代生活不合逻辑中的读者抛出了一条救生索。Cheng 是一名数学家，所以她知道如何提出无懈可击的论点。但即使对她来说，逻辑有时也会成为情感的牺牲品，这就是为什么她仍然害怕飞行，并且吃的饼干比她应该吃的多。 如果一个数学家不能合乎逻辑，我们该怎么办？在这本书中，Cheng 揭示了逻辑的内部运作和局限性，并解释了为什么非逻辑——例如情感——对我们的思考和交流至关重要。Cheng 向我们展示了如何结合使用逻辑和非逻辑来驾驭一个充斥着偏见、男性说教和操纵模因的世界。这本书籍富有洞察力、实用且有趣，适合任何想要更清晰思考的人。 How both logical and em...(展开全部)

http://www.timharford.com/logicoflife/ “Life often seems to defy logic. When a prostitute agrees to unprotected sex, or a teenage criminal embarks on a burglary, or a smoker lights another cigarette, we seem to be a million miles from what we would call rational behaviour. None of this makes sense – or does it? Tim Harford thinks it does. And by weaving stories from locations a...(展开全部)

Life sometimes seems illogical. Individuals do strange things: take drugs, have unprotected sex, mug each other. Love seems irrational, and so does divorce. On a larger scale, life seems no fairer or easier to fathom: Why do some neighborhoods thrive and others become ghettos? Why is racism so persistent? Why is your idiot boss paid a fortune for sitting behind a mahogany altar...(展开全部)

Life sometimes seems illogical. Individuals do strange things: take drugs, have unprotected sex, mug each other. Love seems irrational, and so does divorce. On a larger scale, life seems no fairer or easier to fathom: Why do some neighborhoods thrive and others become ghettos? Why is racism so persistent? Why is your idiot boss paid a fortune for sitting behind a mahogany altar...(展开全部)

http://www.timharford.com/logicoflife/ “Life often seems to defy logic. When a prostitute agrees to unprotected sex, or a teenage criminal embarks on a burglary, or a smoker lights another cigarette, we seem to be a million miles from what we would call rational behaviour. None of this makes sense – or does it? Tim Harford thinks it does. And by weaving stories from locations a...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 When you think about it, being a manager means constantly having to make decisions. Who should you hire? What should your budget be? How should you handle this project? And even more critically, what should you do today? Decision making is one of those core skills that is assumed but rarely taught. Yet it is a complex behaviour and understanding more about how we do it...(展开全部)

"The magnum opus of one of America's most respected military historians, "The Art of War in the Western World" has earned its place as the standard work on how the three major operational components of war - tactics, logistics, and strategy - have evolved and changed over time. This monumental work encompasses 2,500 years of military history, from infantry combat in ancient Gre...(展开全部)

"The magnum opus of one of America's most respected military historians, "The Art of War in the Western World" has earned its place as the standard work on how the three major operational components of war - tactics, logistics, and strategy - have evolved and changed over time. This monumental work encompasses 2,500 years of military history, from infantry combat in ancient Gre...(展开全部)

For thousands of years, mathematicians have used the timeless art of logic to see the world more clearly. In The Art of Logic, Royal Society Science Book Prize nominee Eugenia Cheng shows how anyone can think like a mathematician - and see, argue and think better. Learn how to simplify complex decisions without over-simplifying them. Discover the power of analogies and the dang...(展开全部)