Innumeracy: mathematical illiteracy and its consequences
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Examines the nation's burgeoning inability to deal rationally with very large numbers, assesses the impact on government policymaking and everyday life, and shows what can be done about this.
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- Full title :Innumeracy : mathematical illiteracy and its consequences / John Allen Paulos.
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Examines the nation's burgeoning inability to deal rationally with very large numbers, assesses the impact on government policymaking and everyday life, and shows what can be done about this.
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- Publication Date:2001.
- Edition:First paperback edition
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- Publisher(s):Hill and Wang
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2001.
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With new preface.
Originally published: New York : Hill and Wang, 1988.
The Physical Object
- Description:xvi, 180 pages ; : 21 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780809058402, 0809058405
- oclc:ocm49853587
- LC Classification:QA93
- Dewey Decimal:510
Table of Contents
1 Examples and Principles -- 2 Probability and Coincidence -- 3 Pseudoscience -- 4 Whence Innumeracy? -- 5 Statistics, Trade-Offs, and Society.
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