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Will you pay more for a $19.99 shirt with a 20 percent discount or a $24.99 shirt with a 30 percent discount? The truth is, most of the math you find yourself doing on a day to day basis it's usually done in your head, that's why improving your mental math skills is always useful. If you’ve grown up hating math, that’s probably because you’ve been taught with the wrong approach. Math can help you calculate a discount on the fly, easily multiply big numbers, or quickly figure out how much dough packs you’ll need to make 50 cookies if one pack will be enough for 20.

Every time we download a song from iTunes, take a flight across the Atlantic or talk on our mobile phones, we are relying on great mathematical inventions. Maths may fail to provide answers to various of its own problems, but it can provide answers to problems that don't seem to be its own - how prime numbers are the key to Real Madrid's success, to secrets on the internet and to the survival of insects in the forests of North America.

Stop making bad decisions because of misunderstood numbers. Learn the math essentials that give you the clarity you've missed. Your future is a sum of your decisions. Transform your life's trajectory—one calculation at a time. From budgets to big dreams, unlock the math standing between you and the life you want to lead.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was a "universal genius" who ranged across many fields and made breakthroughs in most of them. Leibniz invented calculus (independently from Isaac Newton), conceptualized the modern computer, and developed the famous thesis that the existing world is the best that God could have created.

Learn about a new number in small bite-sized episodes. Each day we examine look at a new number, it's significance and cultural impact. We start at 0 and end at... well who knows?

Freakonomics showed how economic calculations can explain seemingly counterintuitive decision-making. Thinking, Fast and Slow helped listeners identify a host of small cognitive errors that can lead to miscalculations and irrational thought. In What the Luck?, statistician and author Gary Smith sets himself a similar goal, and explains - in clear, understandable, and witty prose - how a statistical understanding of luck can change the way we see just about every aspect of our lives.

Learning and improving your Python skills (your career asset) will open opportunities with many companies requiring their engineers, programmers, consultants, and developers with Python backgrounds to automate their systems. What if this book is going to reveal the latest features, and neat tricks that are going to make your programming better and faster? Imagine, no more working late nights or debugging messy codes.

Blockchain is one of the most exciting developments since the Internet. It is a completely revolutionary way to secure online data and one that will change things forever. It has turned the way we think about Internet security completely on its head. It not only changes the way we look at online security, but it turns some heads doing it. For the first time ever, companies have a way of maintaining a complete support system for online devices and appliances without having to break the bank.

Choices can be overwhelming. But you don’t need to give up on the things that you want just because you have a history of making the worst decisions. With the help of game theory, you will learn to adapt a more rational, effective, and analytical way to formulate your decisions and land the outcome that you’ve always wanted. More often than not, decisions based on merely feelings can lead to chaos and dissatisfaction. It will always be better to use your head in making a choice, especially in major deals such as in your business and personal affairs.