A mathematician reads the newspaper / PAULOS, John Allen

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A mathematician reads the newspaper / PAULOS, John Allen

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PAULOS, John Allen

Published by Anchor Books - 1995

Library: Paris Champerret

Source : Syracuse

Item type: Book
Language: English

Publication year: 1995

ISBN: 978-0-385-48254-7

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This book examines the mathematical angles of stories in the news. The aim is to leave the reader with a greater appreciation of the role of mathematics in understanding social issues and with a keener skepticism of its uses, nonuses, misuses, and abuses in the daily paper. It also shows that mathematics is a way of thinking and questioning and not only a matter of plugging numbers into formulas and performing rote computations.

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