Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception - Hardcover

Seife, Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670022160 ISBN 13: 9780670022168

Publisher: Viking Pr, 2010

Synopsis

HardCover. Pub Date: 2010 Pages: 304 in Publisher: Viking Passion.com Sexy The bestselling author of Zero shows how mathematical misinformation pervades-and shapes-our daily lives. According to MSNBC. Having a child makes you stupid You actually lose IQ points . Good Morning America has announced that natural blondes will be extinct within two hundred years. Pundits estimated that there were more than a million demonstrators at a tea party rally in Washington. DC. even though roughly sixty thousand were there. Numbers have peculiar powers- they can disarm skeptics. befuddle journalists. and hoodwink the public into believing almost anything. Proofiness. as Charles Seife explains in this eye-opening book. is the art of using pure mathematics for impure ends. and he reminds readers that bad mathematics has a dark side. It is used to ing down beloved government officials and to...

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Review:

"A delightful and remarkably revealing book that should be required reading for . . . well, for everyone."
-Booklist (Starred review)

About the Author:

Charles Seife is the author of five previous books, including Proofiness and Zero, which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for first nonfiction and was a New York Times notable book. He has written for a wide variety of publications, including The New York Times, Wired, New Scientist, Science, Scientific American, and The Economist. He is a professor of journalism at New York University and lives in New York City.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Pr
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0670022160
• ISBN 13: 9780670022168
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 295