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    Numb and Number: How to Avoid Being Mystified by the Mathematics of Modern Life
    Numb and Number: How to Avoid Being Mystified by the Mathematics of Modern Life
    Numb and Number: How to Avoid Being Mystified by the Mathematics of Modern Life
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    Numb and Number: How to Avoid Being Mystified by the Mathematics of Modern Life

    By William Hartston

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    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAtlantic Books
    Release dateNov 5, 2020
    ISBN9781838950866
    Numb and Number: How to Avoid Being Mystified by the Mathematics of Modern Life

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