Proofiness The Dark Art of Mathematical Deception

Name: Proofiness The Dark Art of Mathematical Deception
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ISBN: 9780670022168

ISBN-10: 0670022160

ISBN-13: 9780670022168

Edition: 2010

Authors: Charles Seife

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The bestselling author of Zeroshows how mathematical misinformation pervades-and shapes-our daily lives. According to MSNBC, having a child makes you stupid. You actually lose IQ points. Good Morning Americahas announced that natural blondes will be extinct within two hundred years. Pundits estimated that there were more than a million demonstrators at a tea party rally in Washington, D.C., even though roughly sixty thousand were there. Numbers have peculiar powers-they can disarm skeptics, befuddle journalists, and hoodwink the public into believing almost anything. "Proofiness," as Charles Seife explains in this eye-opening book, is the art of using pure mathematics for impure ends, and…

Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/23/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English

A graduate of Yale University in Mathematics, Charles Seife's areas of research include probability theory and artificial intelligence. His journalism includes articles for The New Scientist, The Economist, and Scientific American among others. His first book, Zero: the Biography of a Dangerous Idea, won the PEN Award for Non-fiction.



Introduction: Proofiness



Phony Facts, Phony Figures



Rorschach's Demon



Risky Business



Poll Cats



Electile Dysfunction



An Unfair Vote



Alternate Realities



Propaganda by the Numbers


Acknowledgments



Statistical Error



Electronic Voting



The Prosecutor's Fallacy


Notes


Bibliography


Index