John Allen Paulos shares about his new book, Who’s Counting, on episode 429 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
We do speak in probabilities our whole lives. Most of us speak it badly, but we do speak it.
-John Allen Paulos
Resources
- Who’s Counting? Uniting Numbers and Narratives with Stories from Pop Culture, Puzzles, Politics, and More, by John Allen Paulos
- Mathematics cartoon
- Pun
- Bayes theorem
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