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A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper
A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper
Author: John Allen Paulos
ISBN-13: 9780465043620
ISBN-10: 0465043623
Publication Date: 4/1995
Pages: 224
Rating:
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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3.5 stars, based on 3 ratings
Publisher: Basic Books
Book Type: Hardcover
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Entertaining and yet teaches what statistics and mathematics can really make the world appear like.
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Very much like "Freakonomics"
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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.