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Title: Beyond Numeracy by John Allen Paulos ISBN: 0-679-73807-X Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 07 April, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.44 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: one of the few great mathematics books.
Comment: I was captured entirely by "innumaracy", so i dwelve deeper into John Allen Paulo works, his website and other books, and i manage to buy several of the books.
I particularly like beyond numeracy. It is not as easily read as innumeracy, but it is deeper and more insightful.
It is written in loose shorter essays focusing on special mathematic things. I love the explanation of "infinity", "chaos theory", "pi", "probability" etc. I think people interested slightly in mathematics will be enchanted and enjoying the book.
Some of the essays are only sweet writing words, some contain heavy formula that needs digestions and basic math understanding.
There are about 70 short essays in all that can be read independently at leasure. I found out i strted to get dizzy after reading 10 essays in a straight reading.
John proved that you can make dry stuff interesting, and if you read some of the materials and use if for conversation, it will makes you look like a whiz with great taste! that is one additional benefit of reading! and you will do it without the usual pain. ;-)
Rating: 4
Summary: Fascinating dictionary
Comment: These short essays, arranged alphabetically present a peek into mathematical topics, some I've long forgotten (differentials) and others new (non-Euclidian geometry). Paulos writes directly, usually without formulas, and if a particular essay doesn't click for you, keep turning, there's a new one in a few pages. Although the essays are mostly independent, there are some interesting connections. In light of the California governors voting recall, the section on voting systems seems clairvoyant, but he warns against the "Jean Dixon" effect in an earlier essay. The essays present mathematics as a dynamic field, and something as basic as variables, was just invented in the 16th century. Even since this book first came out, Fermat's last theorem has been proved, and there is even a larger prime number.
For those working with computers, there is a reminder of some of the mathematical background such as Al-Khwarizmi in Baghdad inventing the "Algorithm", the Turing Test, and sorting.
Paulos always touches on the human aspects of math, such as the fractal nature of human consciousness or mathematics in ethics.
QED - a great read
Rating: 4
Summary: broad, lucid and interesting
Comment: I always tell people they don't realize how much mathematics they use in everyday life. Beyond Numeracy really makes that clear. It's a kind of mini-encyclopedia for most everything a recreational mathematician would find interesting, the nature of pi and e, prime numbers, matrices, elementary probability and logic, functions, game theory, statistics, paradoxes, chaos theory, combinatorics and so on and so forth.
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Title: Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences by John Allen Paulos ISBN: 0809058405 Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub Pub. Date: 18 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper by John Allen Paulos ISBN: 038548254X Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 March, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market by John Allen Paulos ISBN: 0465054803 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 13 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Once Upon a Number : The Hidden Mathematical Logic of Stories by John Allen Paulos ISBN: 0465051596 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: I Think, Therefore I Laugh by John Allen Paulos ISBN: 0231119151 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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