### From Publishers Weekly We like to think not only that mathematicians are smarter than the rest of us but that by dint of their mastery of numbers, they hold the key to understanding the baffling mysteries of the universe. Alas, Paulos (Innumeracy) says that's not always the case. As the author
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A Mathematician Reads the Newspaperby John Allen Paulos
โ Scribed by Review by: Karen Doyle Walton
- Book ID
- 125434632
- Publisher
- National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Year
- 1995
- Weight
- 789 KB
- Volume
- 88
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0025-5769
- DOI
- 10.2307/27969549
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