Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences
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This is the book that made "innumeracy" a household word, at least in some households. Paulos admits that "at least part of the motivation for any book is anger, and this book is no exception. I'm distressed by a society which depends so completely on mathematics and science and yet seems to indifferent to the innumeracy and scientific illiteracy of so many of its citizens."
But that is not all that drives him. The difference between our pretensions and reality is absurd and humorous, and the numerate can see this better than those who don't speak math. "I think there's something of the divine in these feelings of our absurdity, and they should be cherished, not avoided."
Paulos is not entirely successful at balancing anger and absurdity, but he tries. His diatribes against astrology, bad math education, Freud, and willful ignorance are leavened with jokes, mathematical or the sort (he claims) favored by the numerate.
It remains to be seen if Innumeracy will indeed be able, as Hofstadter hoped, to "help launch a revolution in math education that would do for innumeracy what Sabin and Salk did for polio"--but many of the improvements Paulos suggested have come to pass within 10 years. Only time will tell if the generation raised on these new principles is more resistant to innumeracy--and need only worry about being incomputable. --Mary Ellen Curtin -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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"Our society would be unimaginably different if the average person truly understood the ideas in this marvelous and important book." - Douglas Hofstadter
"[An] elegant ... Survival Manual ... Brief, witty and full of practical applications." - Stefan Kanfer, Time
"[An] elegant ... Survival Manual ... Brief, witty and full of practical applications." - Stefan Kanfer, Time
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a real classic, yet fun,
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After four years of college, I'm packing up and heading into the real world. One of the few books I'm keeping is Innumeracy. It was required reading when I was a freshman and again when I was a senior and I loved it even more the second time around. Few books lead you to an entirely new way of looking at the world and I, for one, would never think a math book would do that. It provided me with a more healthy way to think about chance, science, and even politics. A real classic that is fun to read. Paulos' wit makes the ride enjoyable all the way through.
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changed my way of thinking!,
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Rezension bezieht sich auf: Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Social Consequences (Vintage) (Taschenbuch)
I had to read this for a class and groaned. But it is the only math book I've ever loved. It has attitude, is well-written, and changed my way of thinking about probability and the world. The wonderful examples don't depend on equations or formulas. Great book.
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Excellent book & fun to read, but be aware !,
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Rezension bezieht sich auf: Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Social Consequences (Vintage) (Taschenbuch)
The approach that John Allen Paulos takes in making us aware of our innumeracy is very illustrating and convincing (and also fun to read). However, his arguments sometimes lack an explicit definition of the context in which he makes them. In my personal view his context is statistics which in it self is a model of course, that has it's foundation in "the swamp" so to speak: i.e. the profoundness of math goes deep, but there's always more for mankind to be discovered ... whether it's the truth or something else that goes beyond truth. How about love ?
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