by John Allen Paulos · HILL & WANG · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780809058402
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«Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences» is the mathematics essay by John Allen Paulos (Hill & Wang, paperback, 180 pages, in English).
John Allen Paulos analyses why even well-educated people misunderstand numbers and probabilities, and how that inability influences personal decisions, public policy, and the acceptance of pseudoscience. With anecdotes and everyday examples, Paulos shows the cost of not reasoning quantitatively.
The work was originally published in 1988. This edition is from 2001. John Allen Paulos is a professor of mathematics at Temple University and has contributed to The New York Times and Newsweek.
Recommended for readers interested in mathematics, critical thinking, and science communication; accessible without prior technical training.
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.
