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A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper by John Allen Paulos (1996, Paperback, Reprint)

Publisher: Anchor Books
Publication Date: 1996-04-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 038548254X
ISBN-13: 9780385482547
Product ID: EPID138861
Description: Paulos takes the reader through the pages of an imaginary newspaper and explains the mathematics of politics, sports, greed, sex, and relationships. The book clarifies such concepts as probability and randomness in order to show the fall...
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Synopsis
Paulos takes the reader through the pages of an imaginary newspaper and explains the mathematics of politics, sports, greed, sex, and relationships. The book clarifies such concepts as probability and randomness in order to show the fallacies behind many stories on crime, health risks, and other social obsessions.

Details
Publication Date:1996-04-01
Edition Description:Reprint

Size
Length:212 pages
Height:8.0 in
Width:5.3 in
Thickness:0.5 in
Weight:6.4 oz

Publisher's Note
The author of Innumeracy travels through the pages of the daily newspaper revealing the hidden mathematical angels of articles we read everyday. From the Senate, SATs, and sex to crime, celebrities, and cults, Paulos takes stories that many not seem to involve mathematics and demonstrates how a lack of mathematical knowledge can handicap readers. 10 charts & graphs.

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.

Industry Reviews
"It would be great to have John Allen Paulos living next door. Every morning when you read the paper and came across some story that didn't seem quite right--that had a faint odor of illogic hovering about it--you could lean out the window and shout, "Jack! Get the hell over here!"
Washington Post Book World - Joel Achenbach (05/21/1995)

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