Innumeracy

I haven't really read a book like this before but I am working on getting comfortable with math again. I liked certain parts of this book a lot. My favorite was his description of size comparisons of parts of our cells, our place in the universe. I had no concept of any of that. Some of it was more clear than other parts of it.

This is the book that I got the most comments on while riding on the subway. I think this is a good place for my math adventure to start.

This book is great! My only complaint is that Paulos saves his pithy, heartfelt motivation for writing it until the end. I feel like many readers -- perhaps precisely the ones who would benefit from reading this book -- will be put off by his snarky insouciance (not to mention his more-challenging-than-he-thinks statistical problems) without knowing its larger context.