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John Allen Paulos is professor of mathematics at Temple University and the author of eight previous books, including the bestselling Innumeracy and A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper.
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Great book in parts, but inconsistent quality and flow... This is a trip across a mix of fundamental philosophical questions about the nature of knowledge of different kinds. Excerpts from well-known stories, parables, paradoxes and jokes accompany the text to provide concrete examples behind the philosophy. But while the examples and theories are interesting, there is sometimes a difficult connection between the two and neither side is as clear as it could be. Nevertheless the parts that are good are good enough to make up for the overall choppy flow.… (més)
 
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yates9 | Feb 28, 2024 |
Amusing anecdotes kept me reading, and some math elements are introduced, but it's not very deep. The main insight I got from this book was that even a trained mathematician can lose his shirt in the stock market due to wishful thinking.
 
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yaj70 | Hi ha 6 ressenyes més | Jan 22, 2024 |
Palos is hard to beat, when it comes to explaining both good and bad reasoning.
 
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mykl-s | Hi ha 35 ressenyes més | Aug 9, 2023 |

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