A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
038548254X
ISBN 13
9780385482547
Category
Media Studies
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Publication Year
1997
Publisher
Pages
224
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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. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
