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

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The author is explaining the concept of probability in plain English, avoiding the use of equations. He is a keen communicator of mathematical ideas and I still found him engaging in this, significantly longer, form. He has appeared on Radio 4's PM and Today , and has written for The Sunday Times , Spectator , Guardian and other outlets.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.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. I also find some issues with the way the concepts are explained as this could easily confuse someone unfamiliar with maths. It is accepted by you that Daunt Books has no control over additional charges in relation to customs clearance.

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. There are far better books on this topic and the good professor offers no new insights or better explanation on his selected maths topics. Lucid, surprising, and endlessly entertaining, Numbercrunch equips you with a definitive mathematician's toolkit to make sense of your world. 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. I am not quite the intended audience- I have a maths degree- but I would say there is something here for everyone.Das Buch greift alltagsnahe Themen auf und zeigt wie mit etwas Systematik und einem praxisrelevanten mathematischen Basisverständnis der Sachverhalt rational erklärt werden kann.

I’ve been led through the basic understanding of some mathematics relevant to everyday statistics I see. Really good book for the less maths inclined amongst us with everyday examples used making it easier to relate to. 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. Oliver Johnson reveals how mathematical thinking can help us understand the myriad data all around us. 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.Professor Oliver Johnson is a superb maths-whisperer on a mission to arm his readers with the tools to distinguish sound claims from the many phoney ones that bombard us every day. Numbercrunch is aimed at a general audience, and will be published as hardback, ebook and audiobook on 3 March. The book will be published with Heligo Books, the business and smart-thinking imprint from Bonnier Books UK. And if every journalist and pundit would read even just chapter 7, our media would be so much better for it. 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.

Not to mention the things much closer to home: ever wondered when the best time is to leave a party? 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. For more details, please consult the latest information provided by Royal Mail's International Incident Bulletin. Oliver Johnson is Professor of Information Theory and Director of the Institute for Statistical Science in the School of Mathematics.

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.