by John Allen Paulos · Prometheus Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781633881181
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«A Numerate Life» is the memoir by mathematician John Allen Paulos, published by Prometheus Books in paperback (206 pages, in English).
Paulos applies mathematics to his own biography in this hybrid of memoir and essay: childhood memories, teachers, family, and love affairs serve as an excuse to show how arithmetic, probability, geometry, or nonlinear dynamics help revise habits, memories, and beliefs, and understand aging and chance.
Subtitle: «A Mathematician Explores the Vagaries of Life, His Own and Probably Yours». The author defines the work as a «meta-memory».
For readers interested in mathematical popularization, biographies of scientists, and memoirs with an analytical approach.
John Allen Paulos is an American professor of mathematics at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a writer and speaker on mathematics and the importance of mathematical literacy. He writes about the dangers of mathematical innumeracy, ie the layperson's misconceptions about numbers, probability, and logic.
