A Mathematician Reads The Newspaper
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| Rating | : | 4.25 (600 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0465043623 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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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 naïveté can put readers at a distinct disadvantage.Whether he’s using chaos theory to puncture economic and environmental predictions, applying logic and self-reference to clarify the hazards of spin doctoring and news compression, or employing arithmetic and common sense to give us a novel perspective on greed and relationships, Paulos never fails to entertain and enlighten.Even if you ha
Good Reading Just re-read this book again, jumping from one subject to another during a lonely weekend. Reading the ones i mark the last time iread it.I love Innumeracy, and I love this one too.This book consists of loosely connected materials that you often see in the newspaper and John take a fresh mathematician look into it, sneering and smiling and teaching us what to watch over next time we read it.The logic will make you smile a lot, and the awakening will make you look at your newspaper with a different point of view, some sort of small revelation.I believe that John Allen Paulo has awaken up the mathematic curiociti. "Interesting and instructive" according to kychan. A very well written book, both interesting and instructive. Full of common sense, the author provides a plethora of reports commonly found in almost any newspaper, and highlights errors of facts, of inferences from bad assumptions, of statements supported by little or no evidence, of our poor grasp of probabilities of events, and of much else. An excellent read that will make us more critical in our reading of newspapers.. Underwhelming Some interesting anecdotes don't save you from feeling a little cheated by this book which promises an entire mathematical world view but only delivers a few snippets.
His real life perspective on the statistics we rely on and how they can mislead is for anyone interested in gaining a more accurate view of their world. . In this book the author of Innumeracy : Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences reveals the hidden mathematical angles in countless media stories. The book is written with a humorous and knowledgeable style that makes it great reading