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050 00 $aQA276$b.P285 1998
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100 1 $aPaulos, John Allen.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80025668
245 10 $aOnce upon a number :$bthe hidden mathematical logic of stories /$cJohn Allen Paulos.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York, NY :$bBasic Books,$c[1998], ©1998.
300 $a214 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [203]-205) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tBetween Stories and Statistics --$g2.$tBetween Subjective Viewpoint and Impersonal Probability --$g3.$tBetween Informal Discourse and Logic --$g4.$tBetween Meaning and Information --$g5.$tBridging the Gap.
520 1 $a"Once Upon a Number shows that stories and numbers aren't as different as you might imagine, and in fact they have surprising and fascinating connections. The concepts of logic and probability both grew out of intuitive ideas about how certain stories would play out. Now, logicians are inventing ways to deal with real world situations by mathematical means - by acknowledging, for instance, that items that are mathematically interchangeable may not be interchangeable in a story.
520 8 $aAnd complexity theory looks at both number strings and narrative strings in remarkably similar terms."--BOOK JACKET.
520 8 $a"Beside lucid accounts of cutting-edge information theory we get hilarious anecdotes and jokes; instructions for running a truly impressive pyramid scam as well as a new religious hoax; a freewheeling conversation between Groucho Marx and Bertrand Russell; explanations of why the mundane facts of the O. J.
520 8 $aSimpson case are overwhelmingly incriminating; how the Unabomber's thinking shows signs of mathematical training; why we're much more likely to feel aggrieved than aggrieving; and dozens of other treats."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aMathematical statistics.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85082133
650 0 $aLogic, Symbolic and mathematical.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85078115
852 00 $bglx$hQA276$i.P285 1998