200% of nothing : an eye-opening tour through the twists and turns of math abuse and innumeracy / by A.K. Dewdney.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Wiley, c1993Description: v, 182 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 0471577766 (pbk)Subject(s): Mathematics -- Popular worksDDC classification: 510
Contents:
1. INNUMERACY AND MATH ABUSE
2. STATISTIC AND DAMNED LIES
3. THE MATHEMATICS OF ADVERTISING
4. INTELLIGENT DICE
5. THE LAW OF ZERO RETURN
6.CAVEAT EMPTOR
7. THE GOVERNMENT FIGURES
8. LIVING WITH RISK
9. GEE-WHIZ MEDIA MATH
10. THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG
11. EVERYBODY IS MATHEMATICIAN
12. STREET MATH
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Books | Namal Library Mathematics | 510 DEW-T 1993 5489 (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | 0005489 |
Total holds: 0
Includes bibliographical references (p. 174-180).
1. INNUMERACY AND MATH ABUSE
2. STATISTIC AND DAMNED LIES
3. THE MATHEMATICS OF ADVERTISING
4. INTELLIGENT DICE
5. THE LAW OF ZERO RETURN
6.CAVEAT EMPTOR
7. THE GOVERNMENT FIGURES
8. LIVING WITH RISK
9. GEE-WHIZ MEDIA MATH
10. THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG
11. EVERYBODY IS MATHEMATICIAN
12. STREET MATH
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