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

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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.

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. 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. 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. 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. Numbercrunch equips readers with the mathematical tools and thinking to understand the myriad data all around us.We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed. 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.

Oliver Johnson reveals how mathematical thinking can help us understand the myriad data all around us. An excellent, straightforward introduction to usefulness of numbers, which gets to the heart of why maths is so important to all of 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. 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. 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.

Oliver Johnson is Professor of Information Theory and Director of the Institute for Statistical Science in the School of Mathematics. We use Google Analytics to see what pages are most visited, and where in the world visitors are visiting from. Not to mention the things much closer to home: ever wondered when the best time is to leave a party?

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. He is a keen communicator of mathematical ideas and I still found him engaging in this, significantly longer, form. 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. The author is explaining the concept of probability in plain English, avoiding the use of equations.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. Lucid, surprising, and endlessly entertaining, Numbercrunch equips you with a definitive mathematician's toolkit to make sense of your world. 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, The Guardian, The Telegraph and The New York Times. He has appeared on Radio 4's PM and Today , and has written for The Sunday Times , Spectator , Guardian and other outlets. I also find some issues with the way the concepts are explained as this could easily confuse someone unfamiliar with maths.

Utilizing equations offers the advantage of invoking a deeper understanding of concepts that might be challenging to convey through words alone. I am not quite the intended audience- I have a maths degree- but I would say there is something here for everyone.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. Das Buch greift alltagsnahe Themen auf und zeigt wie mit etwas Systematik und einem praxisrelevanten mathematischen Basisverständnis der Sachverhalt rational erklärt werden kann.