12 uitgaven gevonden in John Allen Paulos
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Paulos offers a hillarious account of how the stock market both follows and defies mathematical principals. He offers an enagaing overview of everything from betas to the efficient market...
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Paulos uses jokes, stories, parables, and anecdotes to elucidate difficult concepts, in this case, some of the fundamental problems in modern philosophy.
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The mathematician and best-selling author of Innumeracy argues that there is no logical reason to believe in God, refuting twelve important arguments commonly proposed to prove the existence...
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In this dazzling book, Paulos brings together a most "uncommon" dictionary of everything from algebra to Zeno's (motionless) arrow. His is a treasure trove of numerical wisdom presented in a...
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Once Upon a Number shows that stories and numbers aren't as different as you might imagine, and in fact they have surprising and fascinating connections. The concepts of logic and...
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Paulos argues that our inability to deal rationally with numbers--or with the probabilities associated with them--results in misinformed governmental policies, confused personal decisions,...
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Speelse inleiding tot enkele logische en wetenschapsfilosofische problemen.
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Zeventig korte opstellen over wiskunde en wiskundige fenomenen, geschreven vanuit een niet-wiskundig standpunt.
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