Beyond Numeracy by John Allen Paulos (PDF)

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From the author of the national bestseller Innumeracy, a delightful exploration and explanation of mathematical concepts from algebra to zero in easily accessible alphabetical entries. “Paulos . . . does for mathematics what The Joy of Sex did for the boudoir. . . .”–Washington Post Book World. First time in paperback.

User’s Reviews

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐This is almost a sequel to Innumeracy in which Paulos goes beyond the simple exposition of people’s difficulties with math to teach, in a very readable fashion, to main concepts of mathematics, be it simple high school, college, or even the complex research mathematics.The nice thing about this book is that you can read it bit by bit, since each chapter that deals with a topic is about 3-5 pages long, so you won’t get bored and if you don’t understand one topic you can move on to the next one. The topics are not really connected, so one can just move on to somehting one finds more interesting.Overall, I believe I now know what many of the complex topics like chaos theory are about. Enough for a cocktail conversation with a mathematician at least.

⭐Not bad, takes you back to your sophomore year of college. Not a text book, but a leisure book to expose you to some areas of math you might recall. Bought a hard copy when I was younger, thinking it would be good Sunday reading. Now that I’m old and running out of time, I skip over a lot to find other things I don’t know, but I’m giving the hard copy away. By the time I get around to reading this, the Kindle version will have to do. Hope I can charge my Kindle in the nursing home 🙂

⭐Perfect. Exactly as expected.

⭐Nothing in depth but a concise and usually entertaining description of a large number of math topics.

⭐Only someone who has the math understanding that J. A. Paulos posses could write such an illuminating book.

⭐JAP is a god among men – read everything you can of his,

⭐Pretty good book. It gives a good overview of the major concepts of mathematics and it helped me to understand more the historical oontext of those concepts.

⭐I was captured entirely by “innumaracy”, so i dwelve deeper into John Allen Paulo works, his website and other books, and i manage to buy several of the books.I particularly like beyond numeracy. It is not as easily read as innumeracy, but it is deeper and more insightful.It is written in loose shorter essays focusing on special mathematic things. I love the explanation of “infinity”, “chaos theory”, “pi”, “probability” etc. I think people interested slightly in mathematics will be enchanted and enjoying the book.Some of the essays are only sweet writing words, some contain heavy formula that needs digestions and basic math understanding.There are about 70 short essays in all that can be read independently at leasure. I found out i strted to get dizzy after reading 10 essays in a straight reading.John proved that you can make dry stuff interesting, and if you read some of the materials and use if for conversation, it will makes you look like a whiz with great taste! that is one additional benefit of reading! and you will do it without the usual pain. 😉

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