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Numbercrunch (Hardcover)
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Numbercrunch (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R483
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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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