试试《Alex's Adventures In Numberland》这本书。它不是数学手册，而是用平实的语言向像我这样的笨人解释几乎一切。我不是说你是笨人，但作者是数学家，所以你可能会收获更多……
Try a book Adventures in Numberland. It's not a mathematics manual, but written in plain language explaining pretty much everything to simpletons, like me. I'm not saying you're one, but the author is a mathematician, so you might get more…
亚历克斯·贝洛斯（Alex Bellos）写的《看，这就是欧几里得》（Here's Looking at Euclid，英国版书名为《Alex's Adventures in Numberland》）中记录了与皮埃尔·皮卡（Pierre Pica）的一次对话，皮卡目前正在亚马逊研究皮拉罕人（Pirahã），这是一个显然对数数毫无兴趣、似乎也无法……的部落。
The book "Here's Looking at Euclid" (entitled "Alex's adventures in Numberland" in the UK) by Alex Bellos documents a conversation with Pierre Pica, currently investigating the Pirahã in the Amazon, a tribe that apparently has no interest in counting, and appear not to be able to…
绝对偏离本帖主题了，但因为跟语言有关而且足够 geek，我觉得 HN 上的朋友们大概会喜欢：我几年前读过一本书叫《Alex's Adventures in Numberland》（https://www.amazon.com.au/Alexs-Adventures-Numberland-Alex-B...）。书里讲了一个南美群落的故事，他们语言里没有任何表示大于二的数字词汇（也可能是……
Definitely tangential to this discussion, but it's about language and sufficiently geeky I think the HN crowd would probably appreciate: I read a book a few years ago called Alex's Adventures in Numberland (https://www.amazon.com.au/Alexs-Adventures-Numberland-Alex-B...). In it he has a story about a group in South America who have no words in their language for a number greater than two (or maybe it was…
不完全是。我现在找不到了，但《Alex's Adventures in Numberland》一书中引用过一项研究，显示确实存在统计学上的偏差，比如叫劳伦斯（Lawrence）的人读法学院（Law school）的比例更高。
Not completely. Can't find it now, but there was research cited in the book Alex's Adventures in Numberland showing a real statistical deviation, example: Lawrences' studying Law school more frequently.
试试《Alex's Adventures In Numberland》这本书。它不是数学手册，而是用平实的语言向像我这样的笨人解释几乎一切。我不是说你是笨人，但作者是数学家，所以你可能会收获更多……
Try a book Adventures in Numberland. It's not a mathematics manual, but written in plain language explaining pretty much everything to simpletons, like me. I'm not saying you're one, but the author is a mathematician, so you might get more…
大脑中有些区域编码的整数最高只到<我忘了是个多小的数字>。《数字王国里的亚历克斯》（Alex’s Adventures In Numberland）是一本很吸引人的书。
There are arena in the brain which encode integers up to <small number I forgot>. Alex’s Adventures In Numberland was a fascinating book.
亚历克斯·贝洛斯（Alex Bellos）写的《看，这就是欧几里得》（Here's Looking at Euclid，英国版书名为《Alex's Adventures in Numberland》）中记录了与皮埃尔·皮卡（Pierre Pica）的一次对话，皮卡目前正在亚马逊研究皮拉罕人（Pirahã），这是一个显然对数数毫无兴趣、似乎也无法……的部落。
The book "Here's Looking at Euclid" (entitled "Alex's adventures in Numberland" in the UK) by Alex Bellos documents a conversation with Pierre Pica, currently investigating the Pirahã in the Amazon, a tribe that apparently has no interest in counting, and appear not to be able to…
绝对偏离本帖主题了，但因为跟语言有关而且足够 geek，我觉得 HN 上的朋友们大概会喜欢：我几年前读过一本书叫《Alex's Adventures in Numberland》（https://www.amazon.com.au/Alexs-Adventures-Numberland-Alex-B...）。书里讲了一个南美群落的故事，他们语言里没有任何表示大于二的数字词汇（也可能是……
Definitely tangential to this discussion, but it's about language and sufficiently geeky I think the HN crowd would probably appreciate: I read a book a few years ago called Alex's Adventures in Numberland (https://www.amazon.com.au/Alexs-Adventures-Numberland-Alex-B...). In it he has a story about a group in South America who have no words in their language for a number greater than two (or maybe it was…
这算是个挺常见的套路（trope），尤其在数学相关书籍里，比如亚历克斯·贝洛斯（Alex Bellos）的《Alex's Adventures in Numberland》。
It's a pretty common trope, especially for math-related books, e.g. Alex Bellos' "Alex's Adventures in Numberland".
不完全是。我现在找不到了，但《Alex's Adventures in Numberland》一书中引用过一项研究，显示确实存在统计学上的偏差，比如叫劳伦斯（Lawrence）的人读法学院（Law school）的比例更高。
Not completely. Can't find it now, but there was research cited in the book Alex's Adventures in Numberland showing a real statistical deviation, example: Lawrences' studying Law school more frequently.