Showing posts with label Steven Strogatz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Steven Strogatz. Show all posts

Thursday, April 29, 2010

The Best NYT Business Columnist You've Never Heard Of

Michael Schrage at the Harvard Business Review blogs that it is Steven Strogatz.

Schrage writes:
...his columns have quickly become "must reads" for entrepreneurs and executives who grasp that mathematics is now the "lingua franca" of serious business analysis. There is no better English-language explicator of complex quantitative concepts than Steven Strogatz. His work is a model for how mathematics needs to be popularized

Here's Strogatz on doctors, the OJ Simpson case and probability. After reading this, you will realize that statistics can not only lie, but really confuse.