MATHSEMANTICS: Making Numbers Talk Sense

MacNeal, Edward

ISBN 10: 0670853909 / ISBN 13: 9780670853908

Published by Viking, NY, 1994

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Fine in Dust Jacket. Dust Jacket is in fine condition without tears or chips or other damage. Quantity Available: 1. Category: mathematics; ISBN: 0670853909. ISBN/EAN: 9780670853908. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 17609.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: MATHSEMANTICS: Making Numbers Talk Sense
• Publisher: Viking, NY
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670853909
• ISBN 13: 9780670853908
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • mathematics

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Synopsis

An entertaining, anecdotal elucidation of math shows readers how numbers have inherent semantic content and attempts to cure readers of math blocks acquired in school. 20,000 first printing. $20,000 ad/promo.

Synopsis

The author is identified on the flap copy as a "business consultant who has worked largely in the airline industry." He refers to himself as a "practicing general semanticist." Whatever his qualifications, he speaks clearly to the lay audience and to educators about the importance of understanding the connections between numbers and meaning, and th