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Paperback:
9781633881181 | Prometheus Books, November 10, 2015, cover price $17.00
CD/Spoken Word:
9781469004228 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, November 1, 2016), cover price $30.00
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9781469004204 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, November 1, 2016), cover price $76.99 | About this edition: Employing intuitive ideas from mathematics, this quirky meta-memoir raises questions about our lives that most of us don't think to ask but arguably should: What part of memory is reliable fact, what part creative embellishment?
CD/Spoken Word:
9781469004211 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, November 1, 2016), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Employing intuitive ideas from mathematics, this quirky "meta-memoir" raises questions about our lives that most of us don't think to ask, but arguably should: What part of memory is reliable fact, what part creative embellishment?
Hardcover:
9780465043620 | Basic Books, April 1, 1995, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Examines the mathematical perspective of societal violence, offering insight into the probability and randomness associated with any given scenario
Paperback:
9780465089994 | Reprint edition (Basic Books, September 10, 2013), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: In this lively volume, mathematician John Allen Paulos employs his singular wit to guide us through an unlikely mathematical jungle—the pages of the daily newspaper.
9780385482547 | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, April 1, 1996), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Examines the mathematical perspective of societal violence, offering insight into the probability and randomness associated with any given scenario
Reinforced:
9780606207874, titled "Mathematician Reads the Newspaper" | Demco Media, February 1, 2002, cover price $22.29 | About this edition: Examines the mathematical perspective of societal violence, offering insight into the probability and randomness associated with any given scenario
Prebinding:
9781417737994, titled "Mathematician Reads the Newspaper" | Turtleback Books, April 19, 1996, cover price $25.70 | About this edition: Examines the mathematical perspective of societal violence, offering insight into the probability and randomness associated with any given scenario
Paperback:
9788483831335 | Tusquets Editor, March 1, 2009, cover price $19.95
CD/Spoken Word:
9781400136308 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, February 1, 2008), cover price $49.99
Hardcover:
9780809059195 | Hill & Wang Pub, December 26, 2007, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Argues that there is no logical reason to believe in God, refuting twelve important arguments commonly proposed to prove the existence of God, while offering commentary on such topics as the nature of miracles, cognitive illusions, and creationist probability.
Paperback:
9780809059188 | 1 reprint edition (Hill & Wang Pub, June 9, 2009), cover price $14.00
CD/Spoken Word:
9781400106301 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, February 1, 2008), cover price $24.99
9781400156306 | Mp3 una edition (Tantor Media Inc, February 1, 2008), cover price $19.99
Hardcover:
9780465054800 | Basic Books, May 2, 2003, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Offers a mathematical perspective on the stock market and the human dream of wealth, covering such topics as data mining, momentum investing, the Elliot Wave Theory, and Warren Buffet's fundamental analysis.
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9780465054817 | Reprint edition (Basic Books, May 4, 2004), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The author of Innumeracy offers a mathematical perspective on the stock market and the human dream of wealth, covering such topics as data mining, momentum investing, the Elliot Wave Theory, and Warren Buffett's fundamental analysis.
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9788472236875 | Tusquets Editor, January 1, 2002, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: All our books are brand new.
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9788472239708 | Tusquets Editor, January 1, 2002, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Es indudable que a Jorge Wagensberg, director de Metatemas, le gustan los libros de John Allen Paulos porque este sera ya el tercero que viene a enriquecer su coleccion.
Paperback:
9788472231498 | Tusquets Editor, January 1, 2002, cover price $24.50 | About this edition: En este brillante ensayo, al alcance de cualquier lector, el matemático norteamericano John Allen Paulos nos revela cómo nuestra incapacidad para aprehender la ley de los grandes números, y todas las probabilidades que conllevan, desinforman polÃticas de gobierno, confunden decisiones personales y aumentan nuestra vulnerabi
Paperback:
9788483106617 | Tusquets Editor, January 1, 2002, cover price $24.50 | About this edition: Hay algo mas opuesto que los numeros y las historias de ficcion?
Hardcover:
9780809074471 | Hill & Wang Pub, December 1, 1988, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The author examines the nation's burgeoning inability to deal rationally with very large numbers, assesses the impact on government policymaking and everyday life, and shows what can be done about this
Paperback:
9780809058402 | 1 edition (Hill & Wang Pub, September 1, 2001), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Examines the nation's burgeoning inability to deal rationally with very large numbers, assesses the impact on government policymaking and everyday life, and shows what can be done about this.
9780679726012, titled "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences (Vintage): Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, January 16, 1990), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Documents the widespread ignorance of simple concepts of numbers and probability, and shows how this mathematical illiteracy leads to wrong decisions in both public and private life
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780553452136 | Bantam Audio, January 1, 1990, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Dozens of examples in innumeracy show us how it affects not only personal economics and travel plans, but explains mischosen mates, inappropriate drug-testing, and the allure of psuedo-science.
Prebinding:
9780606265959 | Turtleback Books, August 18, 2001, cover price $26.95
Paperback:
9780231119146 | Columbia Univ Pr, February 1, 2000, cover price $14.95 | also contains Probability and Social Science: Methodological Relationships Between the Two Approaches | About this edition: Wittgenstein once remarked that 'a serious and good philosophical work could be written that consisted entirely of jokes'.
9780231119153 | 2 edition (Columbia Univ Pr, February 1, 2000), cover price $22.95
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9780613181211 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $21.30 | About this edition: Documents the widespread ignorance of simple concepts of numbers and probability, and shows how this mathematical illiteracy leads to wrong decisions in both public and private life
Hardcover:
9780465051588 | Basic Books, November 1, 1998, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Explores the ways in which statistical analysis and mathematical logic apply to everyday life
Paperback:
9780465051595 | Basic Books, October 7, 1999, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A look at the newest and most advanced information theories includes hilarious stories, anecdotes and more, including a conversation between Groucho Marx and Bertrand Russell and an examination of the evidence in the O.
Hardcover:
9780394586403 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, April 1, 1991, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Introduces a broad spectrum of mathematical concepts, from the basic to the complex, in a study that integrates concise definitions with witty mathematical essays
Paperback:
9780679738077 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, April 1, 1992), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Introduces a broad spectrum of mathematical concepts, from the basic to the complex, in a study that integrates concise definitions with witty mathematical essays
Paperback:
9780679729549 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, July 1, 1990), cover price $17.50 | About this edition: Uses jokes, stories, parables, and puzzles to explain concepts in math, science, and philosophy, including syllogisms, metalanguage, causality, truth and randomness
Hardcover:
9780226650241 | Univ of Chicago Pr, September 1, 1980, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Analyzes the logical structure of various types of mathematical proofs and jokes, showing how humor and mathematics are related by common creative processes and discussing Thom's 'catastrophe theory' to describe how switches, reversals, and jumps in meaning are used in humor
Paperback:
9780226650258 | Reissue edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, November 15, 1982), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Analyzes the logical structure of various types of mathematical proofs and jokes, showing how humor and mathematics are related by common creative processes and discussing Thom's 'catastrophe theory' to describe how switches, reversals, and jumps in meaning are used in humor
Analyzes the logical structure of various types of mathematical proofs and jokes, showing how humor and mathematics are related by common creative processes and discussing Thom's 'catastrophe theory' to describe how switches, reversals, and jumps in meaning are used in humor
Prebinding:
9781417775668 | Reissue edition (Turtleback Books, January 1, 1980), cover price $27.00 | About this edition: Analyzes the logical structure of various types of mathematical proofs and jokes, showing how humor and mathematics are related by common creative processes and discussing Thom's 'catastrophe theory' to describe how switches, reversals, and jumps in meaning are used in humor
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