Proofiness: the dark arts of mathematical deception.
Talk and interview by Proofiness author. Charles Seife is the acclaimed author of Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception. A Chance News review may be found here. Here is a link to a video of his hour-long lecture given at Google’s New York office. The title of his presentation is “Context is Everything-More About the Dark Arts.
Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception is a lucid exposition of innumerate thinking in its many ugly forms. The author, Charles Seife, notes that a fundamental source of numerical confusion is measurement, which necessarily involves units and a degree of uncertainty stemming from the measuring instrument. Sometimes reported.
Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception and the Evaluation Profession: Author: Johanna Morariu: Type: Opinion (blog, editorial) Date: Jan 18, 2012: Be the first to review this resource! Web Link.
Charles Seife, Professor of Journalism, New York University; formerly journalist, Science Magazine; Author, Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception. Sometimes even the simple act of counting can tell you something profound. One day, back in the late 1990s, when I was a correspondent for New Scientist magazine, I got an e-mail from a flack waxing rhapsodic about an extraordinary.
Finally, the Sept. 19 issue of the New York Times Sunday Book Review has a review by Steven Strogartz of the book “Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception,” by Charles Seife. To read Strogartz’ review, click here.
In addition to considering its mathematical content, the grading of your work will take into consider- ation clarity of expression, completeness, proper usage of both English and mathematical grammar, and whether you really said what you meant to say. The problems will be graded on a scale of 1 to 5. You should not think of the grade as representing a percentage but as delivering a message.
First off let’s hear from Charlie Siefe, Who Wrote the Book, “Proofiness, The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception. Yes it is alive and well so hear what he has to say as it’s true. After this video there’s a couple links to PLOS One studies, the first one says “the fear of math causes physical pain” with humans, and it’s an all out study with MRI images and all.