Description
| Product ID: | 9780140251814 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper |
| Subtitle: | Making Sense of the Numbers in the Headlines |
| Authors: | Author: John Allen Paulos |
| Page Count: | 224 |
| Subjects: | Popular and recreational mathematics, Popular mathematics |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating From crime figures to health scares, election polls to stock market forecasts, numbers make the news all the time. But are they accurate? This title travels through the pages of an average newspaper, revealing how mathematics is at the heart of the articles we read everyday - even horoscopes and the sports pages - and how often they mislead us. From crime figures to health scares, election polls to stock market forecasts, numbers make the news all the time. But are they accurate? |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 1996-01-25 |
