by John Allen Paulos · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483106617
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«Érase una vez un número» is John Allen Paulos's popular mathematics essay, published by Tusquets in paperback (216 pages, in Spanish).
John Allen Paulos argues that stories and mathematics are complementary languages for understanding reality. With humor, he reviews logic, probability, and information theory through a pyramid scheme, a conversation between Groucho Marx and Bertrand Russell, and the Unabomber's rhetoric.
It belongs to the Metatemas collection, number 60. Original English title: Once Upon a Number: The Hidden Mathematical Logic of Stories.
Aimed at the general public interested in science popularization and the connections between science and narrative.
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.
