[book] Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences is a 1988 book by mathematician John Allen Paulos (1988 1st ed., 135 p. ; 24 cm. New York : Hill and Wang; ISBN 0-8090-7447-8) about `innumeracy,` a term he embraced to describe the mathematical equivalent of illiteracy—incompetence with numbers rather than words. It was a Ne...