by John Allen Paulos · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780679726012
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«Innumeracy» is John Allen Paulos's popular mathematics essay, published by Vintage in paperback (180 pages, in English).
A popular science work explaining why many educated people handle numbers and chance poorly, and how this deficiency fosters uninformed public policies, poor personal decisions, and an attraction to pseudoscience. Paulos illustrates his ideas with cases involving lotteries, sports statistics, medical tests, insurance, elections, and financial scams.
Originally published in 1988 by Hill and Wang; this Vintage Books edition is from January 1990. The full subtitle is «Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences».
For the general public without advanced mathematical training, especially those interested in science communication and in probability and statistics applied to daily life.
John Allen Paulos is an American professor of mathematics at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a writer and speaker on mathematics and the importance of mathematical literacy. He writes about the dangers of mathematical innumeracy, ie the layperson's misconceptions about numbers, probability, and logic.
