A Numerate Life: A Mathematician Explores the Vagaries of Life, His Own and Probably Yours

by John Allen Paulos

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1633881180
• ISBN13: 9781633881181
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Prometheus Books
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"