A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper by John Allen Paulos

A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper by John Allen Paulos

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 t (c)an 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 hated math in school, you'll love the numerical vignettes in this book.

((b))John Allen Paulos((/b)) lehrt Mathematik an der Temple University und zahlt in den USA zu den bekanntesten Vermittlern mathematischer Sachverhalte. Er hat zahlreiche Sachbucher verfasst, darunter Mathematics and Humor (1980), I Think, Therefore I Laugh (1985), Innumeracy - Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences (1989; funf Monate auf der Bestsellerliste der New York Times; 1990 auch ins Deutsche ubersetzt), Beyond Numeracy - Ruminations of a Numbers Man (1991; 1992 unter dem Titel Von Algebra bis Zufall. Streifzuge durch die Mathematik im Campus-Verlag erschienen) und A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper (1995; deutsch 1996). Das jetzt vorliegende Buch ist von der Los Angeles Times als eines der besten Sachbucher 1998 ausgewahlt worden. WWW-Adresse: http: //www.math.temple.edu/ paulos/

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ISBN 13	9780385482547
ISBN 10	038548254X
Title	A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper
Author	John Allen Paulos
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
Year published	1997-09-26
Number of pages	212
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