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Numbercrunch (Paperback)
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Numbercrunch (Paperback)
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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 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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