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

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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 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Numbercrunch is aimed at a general audience, and has been published as hardback, eBook and audiobook. He is a keen communicator of mathematical ideas and I still found him engaging in this, significantly longer, form.

It is accepted by you that Daunt Books has no control over additional charges in relation to customs clearance.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. We use Google Analytics to see what pages are most visited, and where in the world visitors are visiting from. With barely an equation in sight, Numbercrunch makes a passionate case for how just a little bit more numeracy could help us all. 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. Really good book for the less maths inclined amongst us with everyday examples used making it easier to relate to.

Numbercrunch is aimed at a general audience, and will be published as hardback, ebook and audiobook on 3 March. Numbercrunch: A Mathematician’s Toolkit For Making Sense of Your World by Professor Oliver Johnson | 9781788708333.And if every journalist and pundit would read even just chapter 7, our media would be so much better for it. 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. I particularly like how Johnson uses examples from our everyday world to help us understand the concepts, from social media to football transfer fees to weather reporting. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Oliver Johnson reveals how mathematical thinking can help us understand the myriad data all around us.

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. I am not quite the intended audience- I have a maths degree- but I would say there is something here for everyone.Not to mention the things much closer to home: ever wondered when the best time is to leave a party? The book will be 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. However, at times, it may be easier to grasp the concept by incorporating the appropriate equation alongside the explanation.