Reviews tagging 'Sexism'

Alex Through the Looking Glass: How Life Reflects Numbers, and Numbers Reflect Life by Alex Bellos

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strangeeigenfunction's review against another edition

informative

2.5

Could have been an average general audience math book but it's quietly sexist and I am not a fan of exactly how it treats ~psychology of numbers. I also just didn't like the treatment of some concepts as well as I have other people's treatments of the same or similar concepts.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexism

The chapter on exponential growth involves a speaker who forecasts ecological doom.