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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10038548254X
ISBN-139780385482547
eBay Product ID (ePID)17038309541
Product Key Features
Number of Pages224 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameMathematician Reads the Newspaper
Publication Year1997
SubjectGeneral, Essays
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaMathematics, Science
AuthorJohn Allen Paulos
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight6.5 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN95-046049
Dewey Edition20
TitleLeadingA
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal510
SynopsisWith the same user-friendly, quirky, and perceptive approach that made Innumeracy a bestseller, John Allen Paulos travels though the pages ofthe daily newspaper showing how math and numbers are a key element in many ofthe articles we read every day. From the Senate, SATs, and sex, to crime, celebrities, and cults, he takes stories that may not seem to involvemathematics at all and demonstrates how a lack of mathematical knowledge canhinder our understanding of them.After reading A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper, it will beimpossible to look at the newspaper in the same way.-- PhiladelphiaInquirer It would be great to have John Allen Paulos living next door. Everymorning when you read the paper and come across some story that didn't seemquite right--that had the faint odor of illogic hovering about it-- you couldjust lean out the window and shout, 'John Get the hell over here '. A fun, spunky, wise little book that would be helpful to both the consumers of thenews and its purveyors. -- Washington Post Book World
LC Classification NumberQA93.P385 1995b
