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Book Description
Seife conducts a thorough investigation into why so many of us find it so easy to believe things that are patently ridiculous.
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- English Books
- Others 295 Pages
- ISBN-10: 1101443502
- ISBN-13: 9781101443507
- Publisher: Viking Pr
- Pub date: Sep 23, 2010
- Also available as: Hardcover
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Book review: 'Proofiness,' by Charles Seife
If Stephen Colbert had had time to write a math book, he surely would have written Proofiness. Instead, Charles Seife, a former mathematician and now journalism professor at New York University, got there first. Taking his inspiration from Colbert's ... (read full critics)