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Reviewed by Gabriel Santos for Readers' Favorite
Math is the engine of every scientific and technological marvel. It’s also behind many decisions that affect us all the time through algorithms, metrics, statistics, and the like. We understand this rationally, but it still feels disconnected from our lives, especially because of how we learn at school. When was the last time you needed to memorize a trigonometric identity, let alone use it? Ted Dintersmith wants to bridge the gap between abstraction and reality. Far from a dry textbook, Aftermath: The Life-Changing Math That Schools Won't Teach You focuses on high-level ideas and applications. Each chapter centers on a specific field or concept and highlights examples of use (or misuse) in business, healthcare, politics, science, technology, and pretty much every aspect of life. Math is far too important and powerful to be ignored or misunderstood.
Ted Dintersmith tells compelling stories about the world through the lens of numbers, highlighting examples of good and bad math influencing policy, economics, education, and other areas. You’ll be surprised to learn how much of the stuff you hear from authoritative sources is at best incomplete, presenting estimations as certainties and relying on hazy definitions. The book hones your critical skills while encouraging you to learn more about subjects like statistics and probability. Also, instead of rote homework questions, there are interesting questions and challenges to help you apply what you learn. The chapters on optimization, algorithms, decisions, and game theory are especially practical and packed with insights we can apply to our lives straight away. Aftermath is a great demonstration of the power of math, nowhere near as irrelevant and boring as school would lead us to believe, and a wake-up call to modernize our education system.
