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Why do even well-educated people understand so little about mathematics? And what are the costs of our innumeracy? John Allen Paulos, in his celebrated bestseller first published in 1988, argues that our inability to deal rationally with very large numbers and the probabilities associated with... read more
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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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Introduction
1. Examples and Principles
2. Probability and coincidence
3. Pseudoscience
4. Whence Innumeracy?
5. Statistics, Trade-Offs, and Society
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- John Allen Paulos (Author)
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 370
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