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Grace Lindsay shows the value of describing the mechanisms of neuroscience using the elegant language of mathematics.

The brain is made up of 85 billion neurons, which are connected by more than 100 trillion synapses. For more than a century, many researchers have been trying to find a language that can capture the essence of what these neurons do and how they communicate - and how these connections shape thoughts, perceptions and actions. Mathematics turned out to be such a language, and without it we would not be able to understand the brain as we do today.

Grace Lindsay explains how mathematical models have allowed scientists to understand and describe many brain processes, including decision making, sensory processing data, memory quantification and much more. She introduces readers to the most important concepts in modern neuroscience and highlights the tensions that arise when the abstract world of mathematical modeling meets the dirty details of biology.

Grace Lindsay is an assistant professor of psychology and data science at New York University.< /p>