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Date: 10sep2012
Author: johnnydee
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Just some note taking on books I am currently reading.  These are not reviews or interesting stories.  These are just notes from the texts.  If something interesting turns up I will put it in the blog.

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# Doing Mathematics

2013 August 01, john

Started reading this blog: Doing Mathematics by Bryan Meyer. The post there has an interesting link to his research and book. You can buy the book or read it online. He also has a link to pdf of a 1994 paper "Mathematics Teaching: Moving From Telling to Listening" by Brent A. Davis.

# The Stone Monkey An Alternative, Chinese Scientific, Reality

2013 July 01, john

### The Stone Monkey: An Alternative, Chinese-Scientific, Reality

Read this book back in 1982. Found an old copy this week. Will give it another shot.

The book seems to get a strange spectrum of reviews from love it to hate it. Can't seem to find much else about it online.

I do remember from 30 years ago being fascinated with some of the insights. The possibility that Cadillacs replaced dinosaurs, and other such imagery.

# Thinking Statistically

2013 June 29, johnnydee

### Thinking Statistically by Uri Bram

This was an easy quick read. Read it complete on the train in two hours. If you ever had a statistics class, then read it. My statistics was so long ago, but the book was still easy to grasp. It is not a in depth review of mathematics of statistics, but puts the concepts back in your head.

# Praxismath0061

2013 June 16, john

I am using http://www.XAMonline.com to study the Mathematics 0061 content.

# The Joy of X, A guided tour of Math....

2013 June 16, john

### The Joy of X, A guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity by Steven Strogatz.

Found this book by accident. An interesting and easy read. So far through a couple chapters and it has been a good review in how to think mathematically without too much reliance on equations.