最も高いＩＱ指数を保有する人物として知られているMarilyn Vos Savant、彼女の文学は本当に美しいので
原文のまま、紹介したい。
まずタイトルと見出し※添付画像参照を呼んでいただくと、
タイトル、サブタイトル、ポイント書きの構成が非常に上手いので
もう表紙呼んだだけで即買い、即決。
彼女の本「The Power of Logical Thinking」の中で、
Logical Thinkingができるようになることのメリット、
又、（私が思う）数学を学ぶべき理由が記載されているので、
ここで取り上げたい。
子供が大人に、なんで学校へ行かないといけないの？
なんで算数って必要なの？
の答えとして、日本では（又は世界的に）
「良い学校（大学）に行った方が、将来困らないでしょう。」等が一般的な回答と思う。
でもMarilyn Savantは違う。
思考がより深い層にあり、より具体的な理由が記載さてれている。
今まで生きてきて、このような答えを明確にお話される人に直接、出会ったことはない。
だからこそ、この文章に出会ったときの感動は大きかったし、
物理的な行動範囲に限らず、世界観を広げられる「冒険」ができるのが読書の醍醐味だと思う。
下記に原文を展開するが、あえて、英語の原文のみとする。
Readerの方々にとって、直接 日本語訳で理解するのは 時短になるのでけれども、
敢えて、原文の美しさを感じてほしいこと、
ゼロ、 イチ、の２択の答えではなく、自身でアナライズする（自身の所感を持つこと）力を意識してほしい。
Part three illustrates how politicians exploit our innocence to affect our votes, using the 1992 presidential campaign as a superlative example. Never before have numerical issues been so much discussed, and seldom have numbers been so clearly used ( and misused) as ammunition to hit political targets. Mathematics is simply logic with numbers, and when our ability to reason numerically is enhanced, so is our ability to reason in other ways. We gain power when we are able to think logically. Toward that end, we’ll show examples of selective logic, specious reasoning, and outright sophistry, collected from the campaigns of Bill Clinton, George Bush, and Ross Perot. If Americans are better equipped to handle the numbers, we’ll be less easily manipulated in future elections, and an unbiased study of Part Three can serve as a step toward the goal of heightening that critical consciousness.
Logical thinking empowers the mind in a way that no other kind of thinking can. It frees the highly educated from the habit of presuming every claim to be true until proven false. It enables average Americans to stand up against the forces of political correctness, see through the chicanery, and make independant decisions for themselves. And it is the bulwark against intellectual servitude for the underprivileged.
The best way to learn is by shattering our complacency, and this book takes aim at the target. For those of you readers to whom any sort of mathematics is anathema to your psychological stability, rest assured that our approach throughout will be far more logical than mathematical, requiring nothing more than uncommon sense and a little new-fashioned arithmetic. But prepare to be surprised more often than not. Whether in a real-life situation or in the form of a puzzle, many of these problems are sure to wreak havoc with anymore too content with his or her intuition.
And if you become convinced that I’m dead wrong about any answer, that I’m clearly a blockhead, and that you know the (obviously) correct answer, please do write to me at the address given in the back of the book. (I’ve taken the phone off the hook.) We’re about to explore what promises to be conroversial torritory, and we invite you to come along for the ride.
