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Every measured quantity should come together with another, more intuitive, figure as a reference

Every measured quantity should come together with another, more intuitive, figure as a reference

Andrew Elliott – Is that a big number?

Charming book with some nice perspectives that preaches to the converted

One can obtain elegant mathematical insights without becoming overly formalistic

One can obtain elegant mathematical insights without becoming overly formalistic

Paul Lockhart / Measurement

An elegantly narrated exploration of mathematics , heavily lening on our intuition for time and space (thereby defyingL.E.J. Brouwer‘s adaption of Kant).

Measurement = data-driven reduction of uncertainty

Measurement = data-driven reduction of uncertainty

Douglas Hubbard – How to measure anything

A lot of Fermi-type deconstruction of drivers, Monte Carlo simulations, and value estimates .

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