A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper: Making Sense of the Numbers in the Headlines - Softcover

Paulos, John Allen

 
9780140251814: A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper: Making Sense of the Numbers in the Headlines
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0140251812 ISBN 13: 9780140251814
Verlag: Penguin, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

From crime figures to health scares, election polls to stock market forecasts, numbers make the news all the time. But are they accurate?

John Allen Paulos, travels through the pages of an average newspaper, revealing how mathematics is at the heart of the articles we read every day - even horoscopes and the sports pages - and how often they mislead us. By understanding simple concepts such as probability, chaos theory and game theory, you'll be able to see through faulty statistics, stock market forecasters and conspiracy theorists - and make the figures truly add up.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

John Allen Paulos is professor of mathematics at Temple University in Philadelphia. He is author of several books, including the bestseller Innumeracy which was a New York Times bestseller for 18 weeks and A Mathematician Plays the Market. He has appeared on many television and radio shows in the United States and has contributed articles to the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and the London Review of Books.

In 2003, Paulos won the American Association for the Advancement of Science award for promoting public understanding of science.

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Verlag
Penguin
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0140251812
ISBN 13 
9780140251814
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
224
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