false 73509865 820405 195024 038548254X 9780385482547 12 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/195024.A_Mathematician_Reads_the_Newspaper 3.52 98 Innumeracy a bestseller, John Allen Paulos travels though the pages of the daily newspaper showing how math and numbers are a key element in many of the articles we read every day. From the Senate, SATs, and sex, to crime, celebrities, and cults, he takes stories that may not seem to involve mathematics at all and demonstrates how a lack of mathematical knowledge can hinder our understanding of them.]]> 32711 3.63 791 132 1995 0 2009-10-05T09:19:27-07:00 1403587 40 2009-10-05T09:19:27-07:00 4 0 false Mon Oct 05 09:19:23 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 02 21:01:21 -0800 2009