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1) Irreligion: a mathematician explains why the arguments for God just don't add up

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Paulos, John Allen

Pub. Date

2008.

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

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A Lifelong Unbeliever Finds No Reason to Change His Mind Are there any logical reasons to believe in God? Mathematician and bestselling author John Allen Paulos thinks not. In Irreligion he presents the case for his own worldview, organizing his book into twelve chapters that refute the twelve arguments most often put forward for believing in God's existence. The latter arguments, Paulos relates in his characteristically lighthearted style, "range...

2) Innumeracy: mathematical illiteracy and its consequences

Author

Paulos, John Allen

Language

English

3) A mathematician reads the newspaper

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Paulos, John Allen

Pub. Date

[1995]

Language

English

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John Allen Paulos is a master at shedding mathematical lights on our everyday world:What exactly did Lani Guinier say about quotas?What is the probability of identifying a murderer through DNA testing?Which are the real risks to our health and which the phony ones?Employing the same fun-filled, user-friendly, and quirkily insightful approach that put Innumeracy on best-seller lists, Paulos now leads us through the pages of the daily newspaper, revealing...

4) A numerate life: a mathematician explores the vagaries of life, his own and probably yours

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Paulos, John Allen

Pub. Date

2015.

Language

English

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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 biased? By conjoining two opposing mindsets--the suspension of disbelief required in storytelling and the skepticism inherent in the scientific method--bestselling...