Numbercrunch

Name: Numbercrunch
Brand: Blink Publishing
SKU: 9781788708371
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A Mathematician's Toolkit for Making Sense of Your World

Автор: Professor Oliver Johnson

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: Blink Publishing

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'Lucid and entertaining. With barely an equation in sight, Numbercrunch makes a passionate case for...

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Автор

Professor Oliver Johnson

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2024

страници

224

EAN

9781788708371

Enbook ID

44501990

Издател

Blink Publishing

Теглоt

240

Размери

129 x 198

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'Lucid and entertaining. With barely an equation in sight, Numbercrunch makes a passionate case for how just a little bit more numeracy could help us all'
- Tom Whipple, The Times

'The perfect introduction to the power of mathematics - fluent, friendly and practical'
- Tim Harford, bestselling author of How to Make the World Add Up

In our hyper-modern world, we are bombarded with more facts, stats and information than ever before. So, what can we grasp hold of to make sense of it all?

Oliver Johnson reveals how mathematical thinking can help us understand the myriad data all around us. From the exponential growth of viruses to social media filter-bubbles; from share-price fluctuations to growth of computing power; from the datafication of our sports pages to quantifying climate change. Not to mention the things much closer to home: ever wondered when the best time is to leave a party? What are the chances of rain ruining your barbecue this weekend? How about which queue is the best to join in the supermarket?

Journeying through the three sections of Randomness, Structure, and Information, we meet a host of brilliant minds such Alan Turing, Enrico Fermi and Claude Shannon, and we learn the tools, tips and tricks to cut through the noise all around us - from the Law of Large Numbers to Entropy to Brownian Motion.

Lucid, surprising, and endlessly entertaining, Numbercrunch equips you with a definitive mathematician's toolkit to make sense of your world.

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