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Paulos, John Allen Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences
New York, New York, U.S.A. Vintage Books 1990 0679726012 / 9780679726012 Trade Paperback Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-new copy. NO writing, marks or tears - Tight spine - Bright pages. NO remainder marks or price clippings. 181 pages. - Annotation Dozens of examples in innumeracy show how it affects not only personal economics and travel plans, but explains mischosen mates, inappropriate drug-testing, and the allure of psuedoscience. From the Publisher 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 them results in misinformed governmental policies, confused personal decisions, and an increased susceptibility to pseudoscience of all kinds. Innumeracy lets us know what we're missing, and how we can do something about it. 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. Readers of Innumeracy will be rewarded with scores of astonishing facts, a fistful of powerful ideas, and, most important, a clearer, more quantitative way of looking at their world. From The Critics Douglas Hofstadter Our society would be unimaginably different if the average person truly understood the ideas in this marvelous and important book. Stefan Kanfer [An] elegant . . . survival manual . . . brief, witty and full of practical applications. —Time Booknews Paulos (mathematics, Temple U.) examines many aspects of popular culture, from stock scams and newspaper psychics to diet and medical claims to demonstrate the popular misperceptions resulting from the inability to deal with large numbers, probability, ratios. No bibliography or index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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Stickels, Terry; Shorts, Will (Foreword) Are You As Smart As You Think?: 150 Original Mathematical, Logical, and Spatial-Visual Puzzles for All Levels of Puzzle Solvers
Thomas Dunn Books / St. Martin's Griffin 2000 0312209118 / 9780312209117 Hard Cover Fine No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-new condition. Appears unread. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine, bright pages. Illustrated. Clean and bright boards. - Everyone who is fascinated by logic, spatial-visual and/or math puzzles knows Terry Stickles' name. His puzzles have tantalized and often stumped not only super-adept puzzle mavens, but the rest of us. He has published books, puzzles, articles about puzzling, and sets of puzzle cards -- all eagerly snapped up by those thousands who can't get enough of brainteasers. His puzzles have appeared on National Public Radio's puzzle program, in Discover and Games Magazines, and he was asked to provide challenges for the recent World Puzzle Convention. But one trait in particular sets Stickles' teasers above so many others: every one is original. Stickles agrees that recycling is a public duty, but not, he says, when it comes to puzzles. So whether one starts at the beginning section of So You Think You're Smart, Huh? where the author is kind enough to launch us with more gentle challenges (but still challenges, and don't forget it!) or the latter section, where he gets really tough, the reader will find wonderful fun, refreshing brain workouts, and the deep satisfaction of matching wits with the country's most prominent puzzlemaker --and coming out ahead. Sometimes.
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