200 Per Cent of Nothing

An Eye-opening Tour Through the Twists and Turns of Math Abuse and Innumeracy

A. K. Dewdney (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

1993
John Wiley & Sons Inc (Verlag)
9780471577768 (ISBN)

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This volume uncovers the deceptive and erroneous use of mathematics favoured by politicians and advertisers. It identifies the many ways in which numbers and statistics can be manipulated, giving specific examples where the public has been misled at the risk of libel laws.

A. K. Dewdney, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Western Ontario. Well known for his popular "Mathematical Recreations" column, which ran in Scientific American for more than eight years, he is also the author of several books, including The Armchair Universe and The Planiverse: Computer Contact with a Two-Dimensional World.

Innumeracy and Math Abuse; Statistics and Damned Lies; The Mathematics of Advertising; Intelligent Dice; The Law of Zero Return; Caveat Emptor; The Government Figures; Living with Risk; Gee-Whiz Media Math; The Tip of the Iceberg; Everybody Is a Mathematician; Street Math; Annotated Bibliography; Acknowledgments: The Abuse Detectives.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	11.6.1993
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 236 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik
ISBN-13	9780471577768 / 9780471577768
Zustand	Neuware