| A Numerate Life: A Mathematician Explores the Vagaries of Life, His Own and Probably Yours Contributor(s): Paulos, John Allen (Read by) |
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ISBN: 1469004224 ISBN-13: 9781469004228 Publisher: Gildan Media Corporation OUR PRICE: $27.00 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: November 2016 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Science & Technology - Mathematics | Essays - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
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Contributor Bio(s): Paulos, John Allen: - John Allen Paulos is an author, popular public speaker, and monthly columnist for ABCNews.com and the Guardian (London). A professor of math at Temple University in Philadelphia, he earned his PhD in the subject from the University of Wisconsin. His books include the New York Times bestseller Innumeracy; A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper; Once upon a Number, a Los Angeles Times Best Book of 1998; and A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market. He has also written scholarly papers on probability, logic, and the philosophy of science as well as book reviews and articles in such publications as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, the Nation, Discover, the American Scholar, and the London Review of Books. |