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- catalog abstract "Once Upon a Number shows that stories and numbers aren't as different as you might imagine, and in fact they have surprising and fascinating connections. The concepts of logic and probability both grew out of intuitive ideas about how certain stories would play out. Now, logicians are inventing ways to deal with real world situations by mathematical means - by acknowledging, for instance, that items that are mathematically interchangeable may not be interchangeable in a story. And complexity theory looks at both number strings and narrative strings in remarkably similar terms. Beside lucid accounts of cutting-edge information theory we get hilarious anecdotes and jokes; instructions for running a truly impressive pyramid scam as well as a new religious hoax; a freewheeling conversation between Groucho Marx and Bertrand Russell; explanations of why the mundane facts of the O.J. Simpson case are overwhelmingly incriminating; how the Unabomber's thinking shows signs of mathematical training; why we're much more likely to feel aggrieved than aggrieving; and dozens of other treats.".
- catalog contributor b10989812.
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description "Beside lucid accounts of cutting-edge information theory we get hilarious anecdotes and jokes; instructions for running a truly impressive pyramid scam as well as a new religious hoax; a freewheeling conversation between Groucho Marx and Bertrand Russell; explanations of why the mundane facts of the O.J. Simpson case are overwhelmingly incriminating; how the Unabomber's thinking shows signs of mathematical training; why we're much more likely to feel aggrieved than aggrieving; and dozens of other treats.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-205) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction -- Between stories and statistics -- Between subjective viewpoint and impersonal probability -- Between informal discourse and logic -- Between meaning and information -- Bridging the gap.".
- catalog description "Once Upon a Number shows that stories and numbers aren't as different as you might imagine, and in fact they have surprising and fascinating connections. The concepts of logic and probability both grew out of intuitive ideas about how certain stories would play out. Now, logicians are inventing ways to deal with real world situations by mathematical means - by acknowledging, for instance, that items that are mathematically interchangeable may not be interchangeable in a story. And complexity theory looks at both number strings and narrative strings in remarkably similar terms.".
- catalog extent "214 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Once upon a number.".
- catalog identifier "0465051588 (hc)".
- catalog identifier "0465051596 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Once upon a number.".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog language "spa eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Basic Books,".
- catalog relation "Once upon a number.".
- catalog subject "519.5 21".
- catalog subject "Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.".
- catalog subject "Mathematical statistics.".
- catalog subject "QA276 .P285 1998".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction -- Between stories and statistics -- Between subjective viewpoint and impersonal probability -- Between informal discourse and logic -- Between meaning and information -- Bridging the gap.".
- catalog title "Once upon a number : the hidden mathematical logic of stories / John Allen Paulos.".
- catalog type "text".