A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper
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| Rating | : | 4.53 (805 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 038548254X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-04 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
With the same user-friendly, quirky, and perceptive approach that made Innumeracy a bestseller, John Allen Paulos travels though the pages of the daily newspaper showing how math and numbers are a key element in many of the articles we read every day. From the Senate, SATs, and sex, to crime, celebrities, and cults, he takes stories that may not seem to involve mathematics at all and demonstrates how a lack of mathematical knowledge can hinder our understanding of them.
. From Publishers Weekly Math professor Paulos's irreverent investigation of the often faulty use of statistics and fact in newspaper articles. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc
"Good Reading" according to T SANTOSO. Just re-read this book again, jumping from one subject to another during a lonely weekend. Reading the ones i mark the last time iread it.I love Innumeracy, and I love this one too.This book consists of loosely connected materials that you often see in the newspaper and John take a fresh mathematician look into it, sneering and smiling and teaching us what to watch over next time we read it.T. Interesting and instructive A very well written book, both interesting and instructive. Full of common sense, the author provides a plethora of reports commonly found in almost any newspaper, and highlights errors of facts, of inferences from bad assumptions, of statements supported by little or no evidence, of our poor grasp of probabilities of events, and of much else. An excellent read that will make us more critical. "Underwhelming" according to TexasVC. Some interesting anecdotes don't save you from feeling a little cheated by this book which promises an entire mathematical world view but only delivers a few snippets.