Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences [Audiobook] download free by John Allen Paulos
- Listen audiobook: Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences
- Author: John Allen Paulos
- Release date: 2001/5/4
- Publisher: HILL & WANG INC.,U.S.
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Society and Social Sciences
- ISBN: 9780809058402
- Rating: 7.77 of 10
- Votes: 366
- Review by: Kehlani Briseno
- Review rating: 7.89 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/2
- Duration: 2H34M41S in 256 kbps (41.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-18
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, AC3, Vorbis, FLAC, OPUS, WAV, MPEG4, MP3 (compression LZO, RAR, ZIP, TAR.XZ)
- Total pages original book: 208
- Includes a PDF summary of 21 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 14M55S (4.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Mathematics, Citizenship & Social Education, Teaching Of A Specific Subject
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 14.07 USD
- Dimensions: 138x209x11mm
- Weight: 189g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New York, United States
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