Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences Painting The Apple of God's Eye

The Apple of God's Eye

co-founder of Standards Manual and partner at Order

cellphones

and phrasing details

cultural inspirations

Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences Painting The Apple of God's EyeReaders of Innumeracy will be rewarded with scores of astonishing facts, a fistful of powerful ideas, and, most important, a clearer, more quantitative way of looking at their world. Why do even well educated people understand so little about mathematics? And what are the costs of our innumeracy? John Allen Paulos, in his celebrated bestseller first published in 1988, argues that our inability to deal rationally with very large numbers and the