Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences
Autor John Allen Paulosen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 iul 2001
Why do even well-educated people understand so little about mathematics? And what are the costs of our innumeracy? John Allen Paulos, in his celebrated bestseller first published in 1988, argues that our inability to deal rationally with very large numbers and the probabilities associated with them results in misinformed governmental policies, confused personal decisions, and an increased susceptibility to pseudoscience of all kinds. Innumeracy lets us know what we're missing, and how we can do something about it.
Sprinkling his discussion of numbers and probabilities with quirky stories and anecdotes, Paulos ranges freely over many aspects of modern life, from contested elections to sports stats, from stock scams and newspaper psychics to diet and medical claims, sex discrimination, insurance, lotteries, and drug testing. Readers of Innumeracy will be rewarded with scores of astonishing facts, a fistful of powerful ideas, and, most important, a clearer, more quantitative way of looking at their world.
Sprinkling his discussion of numbers and probabilities with quirky stories and anecdotes, Paulos ranges freely over many aspects of modern life, from contested elections to sports stats, from stock scams and newspaper psychics to diet and medical claims, sex discrimination, insurance, lotteries, and drug testing. Readers of Innumeracy will be rewarded with scores of astonishing facts, a fistful of powerful ideas, and, most important, a clearer, more quantitative way of looking at their world.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780809058402
ISBN-10: 0809058405
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 140 x 211 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.19 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Hill & Wang
ISBN-10: 0809058405
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 140 x 211 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.19 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Hill & Wang
Notă biografică
John Allen Paulos, professor of mathematics at Temple University and the author of several other popular books on mathematics, is a regular contributor to national publications, including The New York Times and Newsweek. He lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Innumeracywould improve the quality of thinking of virtually anyone
Paulos provides much in this book that is thought-provoking and informative. Markets can sucker even a maths professor. At least he can explain why
Paulos mixes high mathematics with the kind of stories that make you laugh
Taught me more about the handling of numbers in real life than a thousand hours of maths teaching
This elegant little survival manual is brief, witty and full of practical applications
Innumeracywould improve the quality of thinking of virtually anyone
Paulos provides much in this book that is thought-provoking and informative. Markets can sucker even a maths professor. At least he can explain why
Paulos mixes high mathematics with the kind of stories that make you laugh
Taught me more about the handling of numbers in real life than a thousand hours of maths teaching
This elegant little survival manual is brief, witty and full of practical applications