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Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
— published 2000 — 21 editions |
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Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception
— published 2010 — 6 editions |
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Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, from Our Brains to Black Holes
— published 2007 — 8 editions |
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Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking
— published 2008 — 12 editions |
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Alpha and Omega: The Search for the Beginning and End of the Universe
— published 2003 — 11 editions |
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Nula: Životopis jedné nebezpečné myšlenky
— published 2005 |
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“If you want to get people to believe something really, really stupid, just stick a number on it.”
― Charles Seife
― Charles Seife
“There are many ways to generate numerical falsehoods from data, many ways to create proofiness from even valid meaurements. Causuistry distorts the relationships between two sets of numbers. Randumbness creates patterns where none are to be found. Regression to the moon disguises nonsense in mathematical-looking lines or equations or formulae, making even the silliest ideas seem respectable. Such as the one described by this formula:
Callipygianness=(S+C)x(B+F)/T-V)
Where S is shape, C is circularity, B is bounciness, F ir firmness, T is texture, and V is waist-to-hip ratio. This formula was devised by a team of academic psychologists after many hours of serious research into the female derriere. Yes, indeed. This is supposed to be the formula for the perfect butt.
It fact, it's merely a formula for a perfect ass”
― Charles Seife, Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception
Callipygianness=(S+C)x(B+F)/T-V)
Where S is shape, C is circularity, B is bounciness, F ir firmness, T is texture, and V is waist-to-hip ratio. This formula was devised by a team of academic psychologists after many hours of serious research into the female derriere. Yes, indeed. This is supposed to be the formula for the perfect butt.
It fact, it's merely a formula for a perfect ass”
― Charles Seife, Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception
“Just as it's important to take the changing value of a dollar into account when comparing spending over time, it's important to take doctors' changing diagnoses into account when looking at disease trends”
― Charles Seife, Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception
― Charles Seife, Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception
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