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Mathematician Reads the Newspaper
Mathematician Reads the Newspaper
Author: John Allen Paulos
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...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781417737994
ISBN-10: 1417737999
Publication Date: 4/19/1996
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Publisher: San Val
Book Type: Library Binding
Other Versions: Paperback, Hardcover
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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"