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

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With barely an equation in sight, Numbercrunch makes a passionate case for how just a little bit more numeracy could help us all.

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.It is accepted by you that Daunt Books has no control over additional charges in relation to customs clearance. The book will be published with Heligo Books, the business and smart-thinking imprint from Bonnier Books UK. Numbercrunch equips readers with the mathematical tools and thinking to understand the myriad data all around us.

Das Buch greift alltagsnahe Themen auf und zeigt wie mit etwas Systematik und einem praxisrelevanten mathematischen Basisverständnis der Sachverhalt rational erklärt werden kann. However, even in this topic, the good professor stumbles by trying to justify some of the official view points (of which he's a part of). Numbercrunch: A Mathematician’s Toolkit For Making Sense of Your World by Professor Oliver Johnson | 9781788708333. We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed. 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.Numbercrunch is aimed at a general audience, and has been published as hardback, eBook and audiobook. Utilizing equations offers the advantage of invoking a deeper understanding of concepts that might be challenging to convey through words alone. Numbercrunch is aimed at a general audience, and will be published as hardback, ebook and audiobook on 3 March.

Johnson applies careful analysis and great common sense to an extraordinary range of applications of mathematical ideas, from football to filter bubbles – explaining formal ideas with minimum technicalities, and weighing their relevance to the real world. Absolut empfehlenswert für jeden, der entweder privat oder im Beruf Datenzusammenhänge besser verstehen möchte. I also find some issues with the way the concepts are explained as this could easily confuse someone unfamiliar with maths.

There are far better books on this topic and the good professor offers no new insights or better explanation on his selected maths topics. com/science/2023/mar/12/how-to-read-the-news-like-a-mathematician-from-the-budget-and-hs2-to-covid-and-sport The book has been published with Heligo Books, the business and smart-thinking imprint from Bonnier Books UK. 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. g., the book by Spiegelhalter, which treats similar ideas in a deeper way but not more complicated to read. 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.