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A Numerate Life: A Mathematician Explores the Vagaries of Life, His Own and Probably Yours
A Numerate Life A Mathematician Explores the Vagaries of Life His Own and Probably Yours
Author: John Allen Paulos
Employing intuitive ideas from mathematics, this quirky "meta-memoir" raises questions about our lives that most of us don't think to ask, but arguably should: What part of memory is reliable fact, what part creative embellishment? Which favorite presuppositions are unfounded, which statistically biased? By conjoining two opposing mindsets--the ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781633881181
ISBN-10: 1633881180
Publication Date: 11/10/2015
Pages: 200
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Publisher: Prometheus Books
Book Type: Paperback
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