Numb And Number. How To Avoid Being Mystified By The Mathematics Of Modern Life

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: As New
Publisher: Atlantic
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2020
Edition: First Edition

Description: 280 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Like it or not, our lives are dominated by mathematics. Our daily diet of news regales us with statistical forecasts, opinion polls, risk assessments, inflation figures, weather and climate predictions and all sorts of political decisions and advice backed up by supposedly accurate numbers. Most of us do not even pause and question such figures even to ask what they really mean and whether they raise more questions than they answer. We let the figures wash over us with no more than a glance. In this simple guide for anyone numbed by numbers, William Hartston explains with clarity and humor how to steer a safe path through the minefield of mathematics that surrounds us.

ISBN: 9781838950842