Is That a Big Number?
Description:
Impressive statistics are thrown at us every day - the cost of health care; the size of an earthquake; the distance to the nearest star; the number of giraffes in the world.
We know all these numbers are important - some more than others - and it's vaguely unsettling when we don't really have a clear sense of how remarkable or how ordinary they are. How do we work out what these figures actually mean? Are they significant, should we be worried, or excited, or impressed? How big is big, how small is small?
With this entertaining and engaging book, help is at hand. Andrew Elliott gives us the tips and tools to make sense of numbers, to get a sense of proportion, to decipher what matters. It is a celebration of a numerate way of understanding the world. It shows how number skills help us to understand the everyday world close at hand, and how the same skills can be stretched to demystify the bigger numbers that we find in the wider contexts of science, politics, and the universe.
Entertaining, full of practical examples, and memorable concepts, Is That A Big Number? renews our relationship with figures. If numbers are the musical notes with which the symphony of the universe is written, and you're struggling to hear the tune, then this is the book to get you humming again.
Best prices to buy, sell, or rent ISBN 9780198821229
Frequently Asked Questions about Is That a Big Number?
The price for the book starts from $7.00 on Amazon and is available from 26 sellers at the moment.
If you’re interested in selling back the Is That a Big Number? book, you can always look up BookScouter for the best deal. BookScouter checks 30+ buyback vendors with a single search and gives you actual information on buyback pricing instantly.
As for the Is That a Big Number? book, the best buyback offer comes from and is $ for the book in good condition.
The Is That a Big Number? book is in very low demand now as the rank for the book is 2,728,728 at the moment. A rank of 1,000,000 means the last copy sold approximately a month ago.
The highest price to sell back the Is That a Big Number? book within the last three months was on October 02 and it was $0.76.