Stefan Buijsman in his book “Pluses and Minuses” explores the world of mathematics combining it with knowledge from history, psychology, and philosophy. The role of mathematics is broad and relevant to our everyday world even though we don’t think about it. For example, do you know that mathematics exists almost behind every new technological tool that we are using nowadays like search engines, AI algorithms, but also even for coffee-making?
Stefan Buisjman discusses not only the importance of numbers in our everyday life, but also the limitations, mistakes, and uncertainty in mathematics, and how we can use mathematics in making important decisions, for example, treating cancer patients or making timetables.