Like it or not, our lives are dominated by mathematics. Our daily diet
of news regales us with statistical forecasts, opinion polls, risk
assessments, inflation figures, weather and climate predictions and all
sorts of political decisions and advice backed up by supposedly accurate
numbers. Most of us do not even pause and question such figures even to
ask what they really mean and whether they raise more questions than
they answer. We let the figures wash over us with no more than a glance.
In this simple guide for anyone numbed by numbers, William Hartston
explains with clarity and humor how to steer a safe path through the
minefield of mathematics that surrounds us.