by Brian W. Kernighan · Princeton University Press · tapa dura · ISBN 9780691182773
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«Millions, Billions, Zillions» is Brian W. Kernighan's guide to popular mathematics (Princeton University Press, hardback, 176 pages, in English).
Brian W. Kernighan shows how figures in the media, advertising and politics can deceive, and teaches readers to spot errors, assess credibility and make quick estimates. With examples of large numbers, units, dimensions, misleading graphs and false precision, the book is aimed at readers who are not comfortable with mathematics.
Illustrated edition published on 6 November 2018. The work falls under the categories of science and education.
For readers who want to learn to detect misleading figures in news, advertising and politics without needing mathematical knowledge.
Brian Wilson Kernighan is a Canadian computer scientist. He worked at Bell Labs and contributed to the development of Unix alongside Unix creators Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. Kernighan's name became widely known through co-authorship of the first book on the C programming language with Dennis Ritchie. Kernighan affirmed that he had no part in the design of the C language.
