Thursday, November 18, 2010

The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception from KERA's Think Podcast

[2010-11-17 13:00:00] What do numbers and statistics really tell us about ourselves and our country, and how vulnerable are these data to manipulation? We'll find out this hour with NYU journalism professor Charles Seife, author of the new book "Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception" (Viking, 2010).
Download the podcast here. See also: Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception, Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea, Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, from Our Brains to Black Holes, Alpha and Omega: The Search for the Beginning and End of the Universe, Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking

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