Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences
by John Allen Paulos
Recommended by Balaji S. Srinivasan and James Gunn
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Statistics, Math, and Math Science.
Dozens of examples in innumeracy show us how it affects not only personal economics and travel plans, but explains mischosen mates, inappropriate drugtesting, and the allure of pseudoscience....
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Statistics, Math, and Math Science.
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James Gunn
“Innumeracy, by @JohnAllenPaulos, changed my understanding of the world as a young person. It's a simple, easytoread book about how people misinterpret math & coincidences & misunderstand the world in general because of it.”
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Consider First Course in Probability, A by Sheldon Ross.
“Sheldon Ross’s First Course in Probability reads like a clear, calculus-based undergraduate textbook: definitions, step-by-step derivations, and many worked examples aimed at building formal comfort with probability. What works best is its mathematical clarity — it pushes you through proofs and algebra so you understand why common distributions and counting arguments work. The main limitation is tone and pacing: chapters can feel terse and formula-heavy, and the bundled diskette/tooling feels dated for readers expecting modern software support.”
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