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A Numerate Life: A Mathematician Explores the Vagaries of Life, His Own and Probably Yours - John Allen Paulos
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A Numerate Life: A Mathematician Explores the Vagaries of Life, His Own and Probably Yours
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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... show more
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 requ
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Format: ebook
ISBN: 9781633881198 (1633881199)
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Edition language: English
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Non Fiction, Biography, Science, Psychology
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