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Author: Brian W. Kernighan
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Imprint: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691182773
ISBN 10: 0691182779
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 06 November 2018
Audience:
General/trade
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Professional and scholarly
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General/trade
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General
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Language: English
Reviews
A delightful introduction to an important topic, this book will appeal to far more than technical readers and could become a classic. --Jon Bentley, retired Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Bell Labs Research The indispensable guide to numerical trickery, deception, and flimflam! --Harry Lewis, coauthor of Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness after the Digital Explosion
This sophisticated, rich, and accessible book walks us through something we all need but are almost never taught: number sense. The reader is left with real skills and confidence about understanding and interpreting numbers, probabilities, graphics, and much more. Brian Kernighan has done a great service by offering tools that will help all of us become more informed citizens, patients, parents, and news consumers--and better bullshit detectors. --Zeynep Tufekci, contributing opinion writer for the New York Times and author of Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest A delightful introduction to an important topic, this book will appeal to far more than technical readers and could become a classic. --Jon Bentley, retired Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Bell Labs Research The indispensable guide to numerical trickery, deception, and flimflam! --Harry Lewis, coauthor of Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness after the Digital Explosion
This sophisticated, rich, and accessible book walks us through something we all need but are almost never taught: number sense. The reader is left with real skills and confidence about understanding and interpreting numbers, probabilities, graphics, and much more. Brian Kernighan has done a great service by offering tools that will help all of us become more informed citizens, patients, parents, and news consumers--and better bullshit detectors. --Zeynep Tufekci, contributing opinion writer for the New York Times and author of Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest The indispensable guide to numerical trickery, deception, and flimflam! --Harry Lewis, coauthor of Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness after the Digital Explosion A delightful introduction to an important topic, this book will appeal to far more than technical readers and could become a classic. --Jon Bentley, retired Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Bell Labs Research
A delightful introduction to an important topic, this book will appeal to far more than technical readers and could become a classic. -Jon Bentley, retired Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Bell Labs Research The indispensable guide to numerical trickery, deception, and flimflam! -Harry Lewis, coauthor of Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness after the Digital Explosion
Author Information
Brian W. Kernighan is professor of computer science at Princeton University. His many books include Understanding the Digital World: What You Need to Know about Computers, the Internet, Privacy, and Security (Princeton). He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
