The Maths of Life and Death - Couverture rigide

Yates, Kit

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1787475425 ISBN 13 : 9781787475427

Editeur : Quercus, 2019

Synopsis

Maths underpins nearly everything we do, but few of us know that it is often a matter of life and death.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Kit Yates is a Senior Lecturer in mathematical biology at the University of Bath. His job consists of taking real-world phenomena and uncovering the mathematical truths that lie behind them. He extracts the common patterns that underlie these processes and communicates them. He works in applications as diverse as embryonic disease, the patterns on eggshells and the devastating swarming of locust plagues - teasing out the mathematical connections in the process.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

We are all doing maths all the time, from the way we communicate with each other to the way we travel, from how we work to how we relax. Many of us are aware of this. But few of us really appreciate the full power of maths - the extent to which its influence is not only in every office and every home, but also in every courtroom and hospital ward.

In this eye-opening and extraordinary book, Yates explores the true stories of life-changing events in which the application - or misapplication - of mathematics has played a critical role: patients crippled by faulty genes and entrepreneurs bankrupted by faulty algorithms; innocent victims of miscarriages of justice and the unwitting victims of software glitches. We follow stories of investors who have lost fortunes and parents who have lost children, all because of mathematical misunderstandings.

Along the way, Yates arms us with simple mathematical rules and tools that can help us make better decisions in our increasingly quantitative society. You will discover why it's always sensible to question a statistic, often vital to ask for a second opinion and sometimes surprisingly handy to stick to the 37% rule...

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Quercus
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1787475425
• ISBN 13: 9781787475427
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 352
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• Personne responsable: non disponible