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A Numerate Life

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

A Numerate Life

By John Allen Paulos

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About the book

Employing intuitive ideas from mathematics, this quirky "meta-memoir" raises questions about our lives that most of us don't think to ask, but arguably should: What part of memory is reliable fact, what part creative embellishment? Which favorite presuppositions are unfounded, which statistically biased? By conjoining two opposing mindsets--the suspension of disbelief required in storytelling and the skepticism inherent in the scientific method--bestselling mathematician John Allen Paulos has cr...Show more

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9781633881181

Publisher

Prometheus Books

Published year

2015

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1

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A Numerate Life

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Paperback

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