Numb and number : how to avoid being mystified by the mathematics of modern life / William Hartston.

By:

Hartston, William, 1947-

still image
text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

1838950842
9781838950842

Subject(s):

Mathematics -- Miscellanea

DDC classification:

510 H258n
510.2 23

LOC classification:

QA99 .H378 2020

Summary: Like it or not, our lives are dominated by mathematics. Our daily diet of news regales us with statistical forecasts, opinion polls, risk assessments, inflation figures, weather and climate predictions and all sorts of political decisions and advice backed up by supposedly accurate numbers. Most of us do not even pause and question such figures even to ask what they really mean and whether they raise more questions than they answer. We let the figures wash over us with no more than a glance. In this simple guide for anyone numbed by numbers, William Hartston explains with clarity and humor how to steer a safe path through the minefield of mathematics that surrounds us.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	NMC Library	Stacks	QA99 .H378 2020 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		33039001534220

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Like it or not, our lives are dominated by mathematics. Our daily diet of news regales us with statistical forecasts, opinion polls, risk assessments, inflation figures, weather and climate predictions and all sorts of political decisions and advice backed up by supposedly accurate numbers. Most of us do not even pause and question such figures even to ask what they really mean and whether they raise more questions than they answer. We let the figures wash over us with no more than a glance. In this simple guide for anyone numbed by numbers, William Hartston explains with clarity and humor how to steer a safe path through the minefield of mathematics that surrounds us.

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