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

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These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. With barely an equation in sight, Numbercrunch makes a passionate case for how just a little bit more numeracy could help us all. In an age driven more and more by data and misinformation this book cuts through the fudges and fiddles beloved of politicians and obfuscators and outright liars to give a modern insight into discerning what the data and information really say and how to understand it 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. 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. 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. 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. He has appeared on Radio 4's PM and Today , and has written for The Sunday Times , Spectator , Guardian and other outlets.

An excellent, straightforward introduction to usefulness of numbers, which gets to the heart of why maths is so important to all of us. Numbercrunch equips readers with the mathematical tools and thinking to understand the myriad data all around us. Oliver Johnson is Professor of Information Theory and Director of the Institute for Statistical Science in the School of Mathematics. In our hyper-modern world, we are bombarded with more facts, stats and information than ever before. I follow Professor Johnson on Twitter, and found him a helpful, moderate source of information during the pandemic.

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. 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. We use Google Analytics to see what pages are most visited, and where in the world visitors are visiting from. I’ve been led through the basic understanding of some mathematics relevant to everyday statistics I see.

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There are far better books on this topic and the good professor offers no new insights or better explanation on his selected maths topics. He is a keen communicator of mathematical ideas and I still found him engaging in this, significantly longer, form. 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. Utilizing equations offers the advantage of invoking a deeper understanding of concepts that might be challenging to convey through words alone. However, at times, it may be easier to grasp the concept by incorporating the appropriate equation alongside the explanation.It is accepted by you that Daunt Books has no control over additional charges in relation to customs clearance. Das Buch greift alltagsnahe Themen auf und zeigt wie mit etwas Systematik und einem praxisrelevanten mathematischen Basisverständnis der Sachverhalt rational erklärt werden kann. Really good book for the less maths inclined amongst us with everyday examples used making it easier to relate to. 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).