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A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper
A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper
Author: John Allen Paulos
In this book the author of "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" reveals the hidden mathematical angles in countless media stories. His real life perspective on the statistics we rely on and how they can mislead is for anyone interested in gaining a more accurate view of their world. The book is written with a humorous and k...  more »
ISBN: 110487
Publication Date: 1995
Pages: 212
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Publisher: Basic Books
Book Type: Paperback
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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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