Innumeracy
Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences
by John Allen Paulos
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John Allen Paulos argues that our inability to deal rationally with very large numbers and the probabilities associated with them results in misinformed governmental policies, confused personal decisions, and an increased susceptibility to pseudoscience of all kinds. Sprinkling his discussion of numbers and probabilities with quirky stories and anecdotes, Paulos ranges freely over many aspects of modern life, from contested elections to sports stats, from stock scams and newspaper psychics to diet and medical claims, sex discrimination, insurance, lotteries, and drug testing.
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Mathematical ability, Mathematics, Number concept, Popular works, Ouvrages de vulgarisation, Wiskunde, Mathématiques, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Mathematics, popular works, Unterhaltungsmathematik, New York Times reviewed, Lógica matemática, Matemáticas, Estudios, ensayos, conferencias, Números, Pu ji du wu, Shu xueShowing 7 featured editions. View all 18 editions?
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Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences
2001, Hill and Wang
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Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences
1990, Vintage Books
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Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences
1990, Penguin
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Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences
February 1, 1989, Hill and Wang
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Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences
1989, Hill and Wang
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Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences
1988, Hill and Wang
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Originally published: New York : Hill and Wang, 1988.
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"Two aristocrats are out horseback riding and one challenges the other to see which can come up with the larger number."
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Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences is a 1988 book by mathematician John Allen Paulos about innumeracy (deficiency of numeracy) as the mathematical equivalent of illiteracy: incompetence with numbers rather than words. Innumeracy is a problem with many otherwise educated and knowledgeable people.
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