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Numerate Life

Name: Numerate Life
Brand: Prometheus Books
SKU: 09872573
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Author: John Allen Paulos
ISBN: 9781633881181

by John Allen Paulos

Language: English
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 206
Publisher: Prometheus Books, 2015
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Employing intuitive ideas from mathematics, this quirky "meta-memoir" raises questions about our lives that most of us don't think to ask, but arguably should: What part of memory is reliable fact, what part creative embellishment? Which favorite presuppositions are unfounded, which statistically biased? By conjoining two opposing mindsets--the suspension of disbelief required in storytelling and the skepticism inherent in the scientific method--bestselling mathematician John Allen Paulos has created an unusual hybrid, a composite of personal memories and mathematical approaches to re-evaluating them.

Entertaining vignettes from Paulos's biography abound--ranging from a bullying math teacher and a fabulous collection of baseball cards to romantic crushes, a grandmother's petty larceny, and his quite unintended role in getting George Bush elected president in 2000. These vignettes serve as springboards to many telling perspectives: simple arithmetic puts life-long habits in a dubious new light; higher dimensional geometry helps us see that we're all rather peculiar; nonlinear dynamics explains the narcissism of small differences cascading into very different siblings; logarithms and exponentials yield insight on why we tend to become bored and jaded as we age; and there are tricks and jokes, probability and coincidences, and much more.

For fans of Paulos or newcomers to his work, this witty commentary on his life--and yours--is fascinating reading.

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Book category Books in English Biography & True Stories Biography: general Biography: science, technology & medicine

17.44 €

Full title: Numerate Life
Subtitle: A Mathematician Explores the Vagaries of Life, His Own and Probably Yours
Author: John Allen Paulos
Language: English
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 206
EAN: 9781633881181
ISBN: 9781633881181
ID: 09872573
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Weight: 258 g
Dimensions: 155 × 228 × 20 mm
Date of publishing: 10. November 2015