Lucid, surprising, and endlessly entertaining, Numbercrunch equips you with a definitive mathematician's toolkit to make sense of your world. I’ve been led through the basic understanding of some mathematics relevant to everyday statistics I see. I am not quite the intended audience- I have a maths degree- but I would say there is something here for everyone. He has appeared on Radio 4's PM and Today , and has written for The Sunday Times , Spectator , Guardian and other outlets.

Oliver Johnson is Professor of Information Theory and Director of the Institute for Statistical Science in the School of Mathematics at the University of Bristol. Utilizing equations offers the advantage of invoking a deeper understanding of concepts that might be challenging to convey through words alone. The Covid pandemic is a minefield for mathematicians and scientists and if I am one, I would try to steer clear due to the strong emotions, misinformation and the failure of maths, science and AI to live up their lofty promises.Not to mention the things much closer to home: ever wondered when the best time is to leave a party? Das Buch greift alltagsnahe Themen auf und zeigt wie mit etwas Systematik und einem praxisrelevanten mathematischen Basisverständnis der Sachverhalt rational erklärt werden kann.

Regarded as ‘the perfect introduction to the power of mathematics – fluent, friendly and practical’ by Tom Harford, author of How to Make the World Add Up. It is a pity that most examples in the book are based on the covid pandemic only, as the title of the does not suggest that.This is a super fascinating, well-written and amusing guide to how an understanding of numbers can help us make sense of all the data/information around us. He has frequently appeared on Radio 4’s PM, has written for the Spectator, and been quoted in a variety of outlets including The Times, Guardian, Daily Telegraph and New York Times.

The book will be published with Heligo Books, the business and smart-thinking imprint from Bonnier Books UK.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.