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| Writer | Barbara Oakley |
| Category | Self Development |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Penguin Group |
| Publish Date | 2014 |
| Pages | 269 |
| File Size | 3 MB |
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Your brain has amazing abilities, but it did not come with an instruction manual. You’ll find that manual in A Mind for Numbers. Whether you’re a novice or an expert, you will find great new ways to improve your skills and techniques for learning, especially related to math and science.
Henri Poincaré, a nineteenth-century mathematician, once described how he cracked a difficult mathematical problem that he had been working on intensively for weeks without success. He took a vacation. As he was getting on a bus in the south of France, the answer to the problem suddenly came to him, unbidden, from a part of his brain that had continued to work on the problem while he was enjoying his vacation.
He knew he had the right solution even though he did not write down the details until he later returned to Paris. What worked for Poincaré can work for you too, as Barbara Oakley explains in this insightful book. Surprisingly, your brain can also work on a problem even while you are sleeping and are not aware of anything.
However, it only does this if you concentrate on trying to solve the problem before falling asleep. In the morning, as often as not, a fresh insight will pop to mind that can help you solve the problem. The intense effort before a vacation or falling asleep is important for priming your brain; otherwise, it will work on some other problem.
A Mind for Numbers PDF