Innumeracy · Matehematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences
- Authors
- Paulos, John Allen
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Tags
- science , general , philosophy , sociology , mathematics , psychology , business
- ISBN
- 9780679726012
- Date
- 1988-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.15 MB
- Lang
- en
Paulos argues that our inability to deal rationally with numbers--or with the probabilities associated with them--results in misinformed governmental policies, confused personal decisions, and an increased susceptibility to pseudo-sciences of all kinds.