A Mathematician Reads The Newspaper
Paulos John Allen
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Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Anchor Books
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 1995
Edition: First Edition
Description: 212 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.
Publishers 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.
ISBN: 9780385482547
(168867)
