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Paulos, John Allen was born on July 4, 1945 in Denver, Colorado, United States. Son of Peter George and Helen (Sanavas) Paulos.
(The preeminent explicator of mathematical logic to non-ma...)
The preeminent explicator of mathematical logic to non-mathematicians, John Allen Paulos is familiar to general readers not only from his bestselling books but also from his media appearances, including The David Letterman Show and National Public Radio's "Talk of the Nation" and "Science Friday," as well as articles in Newsweek, Nature, Discover, Business Week, the New York Times Book Review, The Nation, New York Review of Books, and The London Review of Books. Paulos originally wrote this charming little book on analytic logic, its mathematics, and its puzzles in 1985. And as in his later books, he uses jokes, stories, parables, and anecdotes to elucidate difficult concepts, in this case, some of the fundamental problems in modern philosophy.
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(Why do even well-educated people understand so little abo...)
Why do even well-educated people understand so little about mathematics? And what are the costs of our innumeracy? John Allen Paulos, in his celebrated bestseller first published in 1988, argues that our inability to deal rationally with very large numbers and the probabilities associated with them results in misinformed governmental policies, confused personal decisions, and an increased susceptibility to pseudoscience of all kinds. Innumeracy lets us know what we're missing, and how we can do something about it.
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(Why do even well-educated people understand so little abo...)
Why do even well-educated people understand so little about mathematics? And what are the costs of our innumeracy? John Allen Paulos, in his celebrated bestseller first published in 1988, argues that our inability to deal rationally with very large numbers and the probabilities associated with them results in misinformed governmental policies, confused personal decisions, and an increased susceptibility to pseudoscience of all kinds. Innumeracy lets us know what we're missing, and how we can do something about it.
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(INNUMERACY- Mathematical Illiteracy and its consequences....)
INNUMERACY- Mathematical Illiteracy and its consequences. Paperback by Paulos Paperback Jan 01, 1989 John Allen Paulos ...
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(With the same user-friendly, quirky, and perceptive appro...)
With the same user-friendly, quirky, and perceptive approach that made Innumeracy a bestseller, John Allen Paulos travels though the pages of the daily newspaper showing how math and numbers are a key element in many of the articles we read every day.  From the Senate, SATs, and sex, to crime, celebrities, and cults, he takes stories that may not seem to involve mathematics at all and demonstrates how a lack of mathematical knowledge can hinder our understanding of them.
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( Why do even well-educated people understand so little a...)
Why do even well-educated people understand so little about mathematics? And what are the costs of our innumeracy? John Allen Paulos, in his celebrated bestseller first published in 1988, argues that our inability to deal rationally with very large numbers and the probabilities associated with them results in misinformed governmental policies, confused personal decisions, and an increased susceptibility to pseudoscience of all kinds. Innumeracy lets us know what we're missing, and how we can do something about it. Sprinkling his discussion of numbers and probabilities with quirky stories and anecdotes, Paulos ranges freely over many aspects of modern life, from contested elections to sports stats, from stock scams and newspaper psychics to diet and medical claims, sex discrimination, insurance, lotteries, and drug testing. Readers of Innumeracy will be rewarded with scores of astonishing facts, a fistful of powerful ideas, and, most important, a clearer, more quantitative way of looking at their world.
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( In A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market best-selling ...)
In A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market best-selling author John Allen Paulos demonstrates what the tools of mathematics can tell us about the vagaries of the stock market. Employing his trademark stories, vignettes, paradoxes, and puzzles (and even a film treatment), Paulos addresses every thinking reader's curiosity about the market: Is it efficient? Is it rational? Is there anything to technical analysis, fundamental analysis, and other supposedly time-tested methods of picking stocks? How can one quantify risk? What are the most common scams? What light do fractals, network theory, and common psychological foibles shed on investor behavior? Are there any approaches to investing that truly outperform the major indexes? Can a deeper knowledge of mathematics help beat the odds?All of these questions are explored with the engaging erudition that made Paulos's A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper and Innumeracy favorites with both armchair mathematicians and readers who want to think like them. Paulos also shares the cautionary tale of his own long and disastrous love affair with WorldCom. In the tradition of Burton Malkiel's A Random Walk Down Wall Street and Jeremy Siegel's Stocks for the Long Run, this wry and illuminating book is for anyone, investor or not, who follows the markets-or knows someone who does.
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(From the author of the national bestseller Innumeracy, a ...)
From the author of the national bestseller Innumeracy, a delightful exploration and explanation of mathematical concepts from algebra to zero in easily accessible alphabetical entries. "Paulos . . . does for mathematics what The Joy of Sex did for the boudoir. . . ."--Washington Post Book World. First time in paperback. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Paulos, John Allen was born on July 4, 1945 in Denver, Colorado, United States. Son of Peter George and Helen (Sanavas) Paulos.
Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics, University Wisconsin, 1974.
Professor mathematics Temple University, Philadelphia, since 1973. Speaker in field; adjunct professor journalism Columbia University.
(The preeminent explicator of mathematical logic to non-ma...)
(Why do even well-educated people understand so little abo...)
(Why do even well-educated people understand so little abo...)
( Why do even well-educated people understand so little a...)
(With the same user-friendly, quirky, and perceptive appro...)
(From the author of the national bestseller Innumeracy, a ...)
( In A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market best-selling ...)
(INNUMERACY- Mathematical Illiteracy and its consequences....)
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Fellow Committee Science Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal. Member Mathematics Association American, Association for Symbolic Logic, Authors' Guild.
Married Sheila Schwartz, August 12, 1972. Two children.