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Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences

Science & Math

John Allen Paulos

Mathematics

Penguin books.India

<p>Wittgenstein once remarked that 'a serious and good philosophical work could be written that consisted entirely of jokes'. Inspired by this idea, John Allen Paulos shows how conceptual humour and analytic philosophy resonate at a very deep level. Both evince a keen concern for language and its (mis)interpretations; both require a free intelligence in a relatively open society, as well as a sceptical tendency towards debunking; and both are quintessentially human. "I Think, Therefore I Laugh" is packed with jokes, stories, parables, puzzles and anecdotes, all of which relate in one way or another to various philosophical problems, leading to some unexpected insights.</p>

I Think, Therefore I Laugh : The Flip Side of Philosophy

Penguin??Books

Paulos offers a hilarious account of how the stock market both follows and defies mathematical principals. He offers an engaging overview of everything from 'betas' to the efficient market hypothesis.

A Mathematician Plays the Market

Business & Money

Economics

Wittgenstein once remarked that 'a serious and good philosophical work could be written that consisted entirely of jokes'. Inspired by this idea, John Allen Paulos shows how conceptual humour and analytic philosophy resonate at a very deep level. Both evince a keen concern for language and its (mis)interpretations; both require a free intelligence in a relatively open society, as well as a sceptical tendency towards debunking; and both are quintessentially human. "I Think, Therefore I Laugh" is packed with jokes, stories, parables, puzzles and anecdotes, all of which relate in one way or another to various philosophical problems, leading to some unexpected insights.

Paulos: I Think Therefore I Laugh

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Columbia University Press

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.

I Think, Therefore I Laugh: The Flip Side of Philosophy

Columbia Univ. Pr.

Paulos uses jokes, stories, parables, and anecdotes to elucidate difficult concepts, in this case, some of the fundamental problems in modern philosophy.

I Think Therefore I Laugh: The Flip Side of Philosophy

Innumeracy : Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences

Bt Bound

<p>Mathematical illiteracy and it's consequences.</p>

Innumeracy

Hill and Wang

ONCE UPON A NUMBER: The Hidden Mathematical Logic of Stories

Allen Lane.

A Mathematician Plays the Market (Allen Lane Science) by Paulos, John Allen

Biographies & Memoirs

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