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"Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater." - Albert Einstein.

Whether you want to learn more about how mathematics figures in your daily life or just review some of the math you learned years ago in school, you will find a number of very readable books for the non-mathematician in the Kindle bookstore. For example:

What the Numbers Say: A Field Guide to Mastering Our Numerical World, by Derrick Niederman and David Boyum. Crown, 2007. Print length: 288 p. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (11 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99; Paperback $11.62. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Our society is churning out more numbers than ever before, whether in the form of spreadsheets, brokerage statements, survey results, or just the numbers on the sports pages. Unfortunately, people's ability to understand and analyze numbers isn't keeping pace with today's whizzing data streams. And the benefits of living in the Information Age are available only to those who can process the information in front of them. What the Numbers Say offers remedies to this national problem. Through a series of witty and engaging discussions, the authors introduce original quantitative concepts, skills, and habits that reduce even the most daunting numerical challenges to simple, bite-sized pieces. Why do the nutritional values on a Cheerios box appear different in Canada than in the U.S.? How is it that top-performing mutual funds often lose money for the majority of their shareholders? Why was the scoring system for Olympic figure skating doomed even without biased judges? By anchoring their discussions in real-world scenarios, Derrick Niederman and David Boyum show that skilled quantitative thinking involves old-fashioned logic, not advanced mathematical tools." - Publisher's note.

How to Lie with Statistics, by Darrell Huff. Norton, 1993. Print length: 144 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (116 reviews). Kindle edition $6.65; Paperback $7.93. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Huff sought to break through 'the daze that follows the collision of statistics with the human mind' with this slim volume, first published in 1954. The book remains relevant as a wake-up call for people unaccustomed to examining the endless flow of numbers pouring from Wall Street, Madison Avenue, and everywhere else someone has an axe to grind, a point to prove, or a product to sell. Although many of the examples used in the book are charmingly dated, the cautions are timeless. Statistics are rife with opportunities for misuse, from 'gee-whiz graphs' that add nonexistent drama to trends, to 'results' detached from their method and meaning, to statistics' ultimate bugaboo - faulty cause-and-effect reasoning. Huff's tone is tolerant and amused, but no-nonsense. Like a lecturing father, he expects you to learn something useful from the book, and start applying it every day..." - Amazon.

Secrets of Mental Math: The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks, by Arthur Benjamin and Michael Shermer. Three Rivers Press, 2008. Print length: 304 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (59 reviews). Kindle edition $7.93; Paperback $10.40. Text-to-Speech: Enabled. Please note: This title has complex layouts and has been optimized for reading on devices with larger screens such as Kindle DX, Kindle for PC/Mac, and Kindle for iPad.
"Get ready to amaze your friends - and yourself - with incredible calculations you never thought you could master, as renowned 'mathemagician' Arthur Benjamin shares his techniques for lightning-quick calculations and amazing number tricks. This book will teach you to do math in your head faster than you ever thought possible, dramatically improve your memory for numbers, and - maybe for the first time - make mathematics fun. Yes, even you can learn to do seemingly complex equations in your head; all you need to learn are a few tricks. You’ll be able to quickly multiply and divide triple digits, compute with fractions, and determine squares, cubes, and roots without blinking an eye. This is the math they never taught you in school." - Amazon.

The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers, by David Wells. Penguin, 1997. Print length: 256 p. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (9 reviews). Kindle edition $9.59; Paperback $10.09. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Why was the number of Hardy's taxi significant? Why does Graham's number need its own notation? How many grains of sand would fill the universe? What is the connection between the Golden Ratio and sunflowers? Why is 999 more than a distress call? All these questions and a host more are answered in this fascinating book, which has now been newly revised, with nearly 200 extra entries and some 250 additions to the original entries. From minus one and its square root, via cyclic, weird, amicable, perfect, untouchable and lucky numbers, aliquot sequences, the Cattle problem, Pascal's triangle and the Syracuse algorithm, music, magic and maps, pancakes, polyhedra and palindromes, to numbers so large that they boggle the imagination, all you ever wanted to know about numbers is here..." - Amazon.

The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives, by Leonard Mlodinow. Vintage, 2008. Print length: 272 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (168 reviews). Kindle edition $7.50; Paperback $7.91. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"With the born storyteller's command of narrative and imaginative approach, Leonard Mlodinow vividly demonstrates how our lives are profoundly informed by chance and randomness and how everything from wine ratings and corporate success to school grades and political polls are less reliable than we believe. By showing us the true nature of chance and revealing the psychological illusions that cause us to misjudge the world around us, Mlodinow gives us the tools we need to make more informed decisions. From the classroom to the courtroom and from financial markets to supermarkets, Mlodinow's intriguing and illuminating look at how randomness, chance, and probability affect our daily lives will intrigue, awe, and inspire. Leonard Mlodinow received his doctorate in physics from the University of California, Berkeley, was an Alexander von Humboldt fellow at the Max Planck Institute, and now teaches about randomness to future scientists at Caltech." - Amazon.

Numbers Rule Your World : The Hidden Influence of Probabilities and Statistics on Everything You Do, by Kaiser Fung. McGraw-Hill, 2010. Print length: 224 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (22 reviews). Kindle edition $13.77; Hardcover $15.61. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Statistician and blogger Kaiser Fung is your guide inside the hidden world of facts and figures - the ones that affect you every day, in every way. These are the statistics that rule your life, your job, your commute, your vacation, your food, your health, your money, and your success. They govern how engineers calculate your quality of living, how corporations determine your wants, and how politicians estimate your opinions. These are the numbers you never think about - even though they play a crucial role in every single aspect of your life. Kaiser Fung is a statistician with more than a decade of experience in applying statistical methods to unlocking the relationship between advertising and customer behaviors. He leads a team of statisticians at Sirius Satellite Radio that is responsible for gleaning insight into customers and operational best practices." - Publisher.

Forgotten Calculus, by Barbara Lee Bleau. Barron's Educational Series, 2002. Print length: 480 p. Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (37 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99; Paperback $11.53. Text-to-Speech: Enabled. Please note: This title has complex layouts and has been optimized for reading on devices with larger screens such as Kindle DX, Kindle for PC/Mac, and Kindle for iPad.
"This practical text-workbook will help you recapture the calculus that got away. Each work unit offers clear instruction and worked-out examples to help you brush up on the calculus you studied years ago in school but have since forgotten. Author Barbara Lee Bleau offers a teach-yourself refresher text, but the book can also serve as a valuable supplementary workbook and review text for students currently enrolled in a calculus course. Because the material is presented clearly, taking concepts one at a time, this book can also be used as a self-teacher by readers who have never studied calculus. New in this edition: use of graphing calculators explained." - from the back cover.

Master Math: Algebra, by Debra Anne Ross. 2nd ed. Delmar Learning, 2009. Print length: 192 p. Amazon customer rating: 5 stars (8 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99; Paperback $12.23. Text-to-Speech: Enabled. Please note: This title has complex layouts and has been optimized for reading on devices with larger screens such as Kindle DX, Kindle for PC/Mac, and Kindle for iPad.
"...a comprehensive reference guide that explains and clarifies algebraic principles in a simple, easy-to-follow style and format. Beginning with the most basic fundamental topics and progressing through to the more advanced topics that will help prepare you for pre-calculus and calculus, the book helps clarify algebra using step-by-step procedures and solutions, along with examples and applications..." - Amazon.
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