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Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences is a 1988 book by mathematician John Allen Paulos about innumeracy (deficiency of numeracy) as the mathematical equivalent of illiteracy: incompetence with numbers rather than words. Innumeracy is a problem with many otherwise educated and knowledgeable people.
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- Author
- John Allen Paulos
- First published
- 1988
- Pages
- 147
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Limited, Collins Publishers, Turtleback Books
- Editions
- 18
- Language
- Chinese, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9788472231498
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“Two aristocrats are out horseback riding and one challenges the other to see which can come up with the larger number.”
John Allen Paulos is an American professor of mathematics. *Photo Attribution:* Sgerbic, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
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