Description
Paulos uses jokes, stories, parables, and anecdotes to elucidate difficult concepts, in this case, some of the fundamental problems in modern philosophy.
Author: John Allen Paulos
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 01/11/2000
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.36lbs
Size: 7.02h x 5.01w x 0.44d
ISBN13: 9780231119153
ISBN10: 0231119151
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | History & Surveys | General
- Mathematics | General
- Science | General
About the Author
John Allen Paulos--best-selling author and mathematician--is professor of mathematics at Temple University in Philadelphia. He has written numerous books, including Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences, A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper, and Once Upon a Number.