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" Innumeracy : "
John Allen Paulos.
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BL
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674561
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b503750
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| Main Entry
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Paulos, John Allen.
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| Title & Author
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Innumeracy : : mathematical illiteracy and its consequences /\ John Allen Paulos.
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1st Vintage Books ed.
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New York :: Vintage Books,, 1990, c1988.
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180 p. ;; 21 cm.
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| ISBN
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0679726012
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: 9780679726012
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| Notes
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Reprint. Originally published: New York : Hill and Wang, 1988.
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| Contents
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Examples and principles -- Probability and coincidence -- Pseudoscience -- Whence Innumeracy? -- Statistics, trade-offs, and society -- Close.
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Mathematics, Popular works.
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510
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QA93.P38 1990
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