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On this topic- any recommendations good books/articles on Maths/statistics, or how the mind does estimation, and how to improve the same? Back when I was in h
by darwinGod 16y ago
On this topic- any recommendations good books/articles on Maths/statistics, or how the mind does estimation, and how to improve the same?
Back when I was in high school, I had read this book "How to develop a super power memory", by Harry Lorayne. I daresay, it was not a complete success for me :)
But you could pull-off some pretty neat memory tricks, like remembering lists of items, phone numbers. The reason I quote this-the author's reasoning was that the "memory" of human mind works best when it is irrational. For instance,if you have a list of unconnected items like carpet,guitar,laptop- make an illogical association of one item to the next.For instance, in your mind's eye,"see" something ridiculous like you strumming a carpet, and so on. This actually did work for me, back then.
So, has anyone tried out/read something similar for improving number estimation?
- petewailes 16y agoI'd vote for this: http://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Mental-Math-Mathemagicians-Calculation/dp/0307338401/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1286369636&sr=8-1 http://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Mental-Math-Mathemagicians-Cal... and this: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Mental_Math http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Mental_Math
- darwinGod 16y agoNice links! Hadn't seen wikibooks before..