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Who’s Counting

Who’s Counting

FromTeaching in Higher Ed


Who’s Counting

FromTeaching in Higher Ed

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Length:
28 minutes
Released:
Sep 1, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

John Allen Paulos shares about his new book, Who’s Counting, on episode 439 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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Released:
Sep 1, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

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