Mathematician Reads the Newspaper Paulos John Allen
Mathematician Reads the Newspaper Paulos John Allen From crime figures to health scares, election polls to stock market forecasts, numbers make the news all the time. John Allen Paulos, travels…
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Mathematician Reads the Newspaper Paulos John Allen
From crime figures to health scares, election polls to stock market forecasts, numbers make the news all the time. John Allen Paulos, 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. But are they accurate?
By understanding simple concepts such as probability, chaos theory and game theory, you'll be able to see through faulty statistics, stock market forecasters and conspiracy theorists - and make the figures truly add up.
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