Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up

Paulos, John Allen

ISBN 10: 0809059185 / ISBN 13: 9780809059188

Editore: Hill and Wang, 2009

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• Titolo: Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up
• Editore: Hill and Wang
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0809059185
• ISBN 13: 9780809059188
• Rilegatura: paperback
• Condizione: Fair
• Peso: 5 once

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Riassunto

<p>Are there any logical reasons to believe in God? The mathematician and bestselling author John Allen Paulos thinks not. In <i>Irreligion</i> he presents the case for his own worldview, organizing his book into twelve chapters that refute the twelve arguments most often put forward for believing in God's existence. Interspersed among these counterarguments are remarks on a variety of irreligious themes, ranging from the nature of miracles and creationist probability to cognitive illusions and prudential wagers. Despite the strong influence of his day job, Paulos says, there isn't a single mathematical formula in the book.</p>

Informazioni sull?autore

<b>John Allen Paulos </b>is a professor of mathematics at Temple University. His books include the bestseller <i>Innumeracy: Mathematical</i> <i>Illiteracy and Its Consequences </i>(H&W, 1988), <i>A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market</i>, and <i>A Mathematician Reads the Newspapers</i>.