Penguin Books Australia

From crime figures to health scares, election polls to stock market forecasts, numbers make the news all the time. But are they accurate?

Most math and science study guides are a reflection of the college professors who write them-dry, difficult, and pretentious. The Humongous Book of Statistics Problems is the exception. Following the footsteps of the successful The Humongous Books of Calculus Problems, bestselling author Mike Kelley has taken what appears to be a typical statistics workbook, chock full of solved problems, and made...

Why do even well-educated people often understand so little about maths – or take a perverse pride in not being a 'numbers person'?

In his now-classic book Innumeracy, John Allen Paulos answers questions such as: Why is following the stock market exactly like flipping a coin? How big is a trillion? How fast does human hair grow in mph? Can you calculate the chances that a party includes two people...