A Mathematician Reads The Newspaper [2013,
by John A Paulos
John Allen Paulos is a master at shedding mathematical lights on our everyday world:What exactly did Lani Guinier say about quotas? What is the probability of identifying a murderer through DNA testing?Which are the real risks to our health and which the phony ones?Employing the same fun- lled, user-friendly, and quirkily insightful approach that put Innumeracy on best-seller lists, Paulos now leads us through the pages of the daily newspaper, revealing the hidden mathematical angles of countless articles. From the Senate, the SATs, and sex to crime, celebrities, and cults, Paulos takes stories that may not seem to involve mathematics at all and demonstrates how mathematical naà téan put readers at a distinct disadvantage
Book details
Author : John A Paulos
Publisher : Basic Books; Illustrated edition
Published : 09-09-2013
Language : English
Pages : 235
ISBN-10 : 0465089992
ISBN-13 : 978-0465089994
Reader Reviews : 108 (4 1)
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★★★★★ Good Reading
Reviewed in the United States on 08-07-2005
Just re-read this book again, jumping from one subject to another during a lonely weekend Reading the ones i mark the last time iread it.
I love Innumeracy, and I love this one too....
This book consists of loosely connected materials that you often see in the newspaper and John take a fresh mathematician look into it, sneering and smiling and teaching us what to watch over next time we read it
The logic will make you smile a lot, and the awakening will make you look at your newspaper with a different point of view, some sort of small revelation.
I believe that John Allen Paulo has awaken up the mathematic curiocities in a lot of his readers, including me. He would argue that the percentage is too small to make a dent to this world of innumeracy people, (which is mathematically correct, and he has mathematically proven that into this world)
Thank You John
P Petermzc
★★★★★ A good book
Reviewed in the United States on 07-14-2020
This was a good read. It was dif cult to read at times but generally light and funny. I had lots of fun reading it and it really opened up my eyes to new things
c c2
★★★★★ Interesting for the Lay Person
Reviewed in the United States on 03-21-2013
This book is a collection of very short essays describing the use of mathematics in a number of public contexts The examples are simpli ed and there is little or no explanation of computational methods or deeper mathematical concepts It does, however, point out in a number of interesting examples the ways in which the casual use of mathematical concepts in the news frequently misleads or deceives the casual reader
