Numbercrunch: A Mathematician's Toolkit for Making Sense of Your World - Couverture souple

Johnson, Professor Oliver

 
9781788708340: Numbercrunch: A Mathematician's Toolkit for Making Sense of Your World
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1788708342 ISBN 13 : 9781788708340
Editeur : BLINK Publishing, 2023

Synopsis

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 the cost of living; 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 three sections - Randomness, Structure, and Information - we meet a host of brilliant minds, such Alan Turing, Enrico Fermi and Claude Shannon, and are equipped with the tools 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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À propos de l?auteur

Oliver Johnson is Professor of Information Theory and Director of the Institute for Statistical Science in the School of Mathematics at Bristol University. He was previously a research fellow at Cambridge University and Fellow of Christ's College Cambridge. He has written on how information travels for Guardian and Observer, The Times and The Sunday Times, Spectator and Telegraph. He is on Twitter as @BristOliver, where he tweets about how statistics can help us make sense of the world and has almost 50k followers.

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Éditeur
BLINK Publishing
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1788708342
ISBN 13 
9781788708340
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
224
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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