“The Great Mental Models, Volume 3: Systems and Mathematics” by Farnam Street 4/5
The third volume of the series explores the topics of mathematics and system thinking - the latter has been on my radar for quite some time (check out my review of Donella Meadows' Primer to System Thinking).
The concept of system thinking isn’t well known, nor taught at school, which gets me thinking, why not? Awareness of systems, their behaviours (like feedback loops or bottlenecks) and our ability to notice them in the real world help us with understanding the world around us. The book does a great job of explaining systems.
The second part of the book is dedicated to mathematics, where timeless aspects are presented to us using real-world situations. Distribution, compounding, sampling or randomness, among others, are presented using practical examples.
Using system thinking and mathematics helps us with understanding of the world and as a side effect it improves our decision making process.
As with previous volumes, I’m amazed by its quality both content-wise and looks-wise.
My Reviews of other volumes:
Volume 1: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3839912680