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Proofiness : How You're Being Fooled by the Numbers by Charles Seife (2011, Uk-B Format Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100143120077

ISBN-139780143120070

eBay Product ID (ePID)102831180

Product Key Features

Number of Pages320 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameProofiness : How You're Being Fooled by the Numbers

Publication Year2011

SubjectHistory & Philosophy, General, Number Theory, Logic

TypeTextbook

AuthorCharles Seife

Subject AreaMathematics

FormatUk-B Format Paperback

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Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight9.4 Oz

Item Length7.9 in

Item Width5.2 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Reviews"A delightful and remarkably revealing book that should be required reading for . . . well, for everyone." - Booklist (Starred review)

Grade FromTwelfth Grade

Table Of Content1. IntroductionI. The Ascent Problem:Compatibility and Significance2. Will3. Responsibility4. Alternative Possibilities5. Ultimate Responsibility6. SignificanceII. The Descent Problem: Intelligibility and Existence7. Plurality and Indeterminism8. Moral and Prudential Choice9. Efforts, Purposes, and Practical Reason10. Objections and Responses11. ConclusionNotesReferencesIndex

SynopsisFrom the author of Zero , comes this "admirable salvo against quantitative bamboozlement by the media and the government" ( The Boston Globe ) In Zero , Charles Seife presented readers with a thrilling account of the strangest number known to humankind. Now he shows readers how the power of skewed metrics-or "proofiness"- is being used to alter perception in both amusing and dangerous ways. Proofiness is behind such bizarre stories as a mathematical formula for the perfect butt and sprinters who can run faster than the speed of sound. But proofiness also has a dark side: bogus mathematical formulas used to undermine our democracy-subverting our justice system, fixing elections, and swaying public opinion with lies. By doing the real math, Seife elegantly and good-humoredly scrutinizes our growing obsession with metrics while exposing those who misuse them.

LC Classification NumberQA99