# Books for the Christmas break

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/books-for-the-christmas-break/107810>\
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**Tags:** books\
**Created:** [December 19, 2023, 9:57am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/books-for-the-christmas-break/107810 "2023-12-19T09:57:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![johnh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/johnh/32/3615_2.png) [@johnh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/johnh)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2023, 9:57am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/books-for-the-christmas-break/107810/1 "2023-12-19T09:57:27Z")

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A thread for good books which might interest Julians. Let me start with this book, which shows the effects of rounding errors, mismatch of units and SQL errors

[Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors by Matt Parker | Goodreads](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39074550-humble-pi)

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**Author:** ![xiaodai](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/xiaodai/32/15937_2.png) [@xiaodai](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/xiaodai)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2023, 10:34am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/books-for-the-christmas-break/107810/2 "2023-12-19T10:34:42Z")

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> [@johnh](#):
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> Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors by Matt Parker | Goodreads

I had the audio book. Honestly, I didn’t feel the content was stimulating enough. I have a pure math degree.

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**Author:** ![StevenSiew](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/stevensiew/32/218393_2.png) [@StevenSiew](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/StevenSiew)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2023, 8:50pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/books-for-the-christmas-break/107810/3 "2023-12-20T20:50:29Z")

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This is my favoritoute book about ODE

[https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Ordinary-Differential-Equations-Mathematica/dp/B010WEW7VS](https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Ordinary-Differential-Equations-Mathematica/dp/B010WEW7VS)

Sadly it is years old and uses an old version of Mathematica V5

But it sure show me how to solve ODE, wow it really blew my brains out.

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**Author:** ![PetrKryslUCSD](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/petrkryslucsd/32/215825_2.png) [@PetrKryslUCSD](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PetrKryslUCSD)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2023, 11:22pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/books-for-the-christmas-break/107810/4 "2023-12-20T23:22:39Z")

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A great statistics book: [https://www.amazon.com/Art-Statistics-How-Learn-Data/dp/1541675703/ref=sr\_1\_1?keywords=David+Spiegelhalter&qid=1703114516&s=audible&sr=1-1-catcorr](https://www.amazon.com/Art-Statistics-How-Learn-Data/dp/1541675703/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=David+Spiegelhalter&qid=1703114516&s=audible&sr=1-1-catcorr)