A Mathematician Reads The Newspaper
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A Mathematician Reads The Newspaper
Book Details
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Category
- Anthologies
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-10
- 0465043623
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ISBN: 0465043623
Author: Paulos, John Allen
Condition: New
John Allen Paulos is a master at shedding mathematical lights on our everyday world:What exactly did Lani Guinier say about quotas?What is the probability of identifying a murderer through DNA testing?Which are the real risks to our health and which the phony ones?Employing the same fun-filled, user-friendly, and quirkily insightful approach that put Innumeracy on best-seller lists, Paulos now leads us through the pages of the daily newspaper, revealing the hidden mathematical angles of countless articles. From the Senate, the SATs, and sex to crime, celebrities, and cults, Paulos takes stories that may not seem to involve mathematics at all and demonstrates how mathematical na
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