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A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper
A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper
Author: John Allen Paulos
In this lively volume, mathematician John Allen Paulos employs his singular wit to guide us through an unlikely mathematical jungle—the pages of the daily newspaper. From the Senate and sex to celebrities and cults, Paulos takes stories that may not seem to involve math at all and demonstrates how mathematical naïveté can put readers at a distin...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780465089994
ISBN-10: 0465089992
Publication Date: 9/10/2013
Pages: 240
Edition: Reprint
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Publisher: Basic Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Entertaining and yet teaches what statistics and mathematics can really make the world appear like.
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I enjoyed "Innumeracy" so I acquired this book and others by the same author. It is a good book in that it meets its stated objective. It provides a mathematical slant on articles in the daily newspaper. It, like a newspaper can be scanned for interesting topics rather than read from beginning to end. I still have about a third of the topics to read. Because it was published in 1995 the topics are getting some dust on them.
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Very much like "Freakonomics"


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