From crime figures to health scares, election polls to stock market forecasts, numbers make the news all the time. But are they accurate? This title travels through the pages of an average newspaper, revealing how mathematics is at the...

Offers an account of how the stock market both follows and defies mathematical principals. This title also offers an overview of various things from 'betas' to the efficient market hypothesis. von Paulos, John Allen

Readers of Innumeracy will be rewarded with scores of astonishing facts, a fistful of powerful ideas, and, most important, a clearer, more quantitative way of looking at their world.Why do even well-educated people understand so little...

In "Mathematics and Humor: A Study of the Logic of Humor", untersucht der Autor John Allen Paulos die einzigartige Beziehung zwischen Mathematik und Humor. Er argumentiert, dass beide auf überraschenden Verbindungen und unerwarteten...