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.

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. Not to mention the things much closer to home: ever wondered when the best time is to leave a party? 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.Lucid, surprising, and endlessly entertaining, Numbercrunch equips you with a definitive mathematician's toolkit to make sense of your world. Really good book for the less maths inclined amongst us with everyday examples used making it easier to relate to.

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.Numbercrunch is aimed at a general audience, and has been published as hardback, eBook and audiobook. We use Google Analytics to see what pages are most visited, and where in the world visitors are visiting from. 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. The author is explaining the concept of probability in plain English, avoiding the use of equations.

Das Buch greift alltagsnahe Themen auf und zeigt wie mit etwas Systematik und einem praxisrelevanten mathematischen Basisverständnis der Sachverhalt rational erklärt werden kann. 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. Absolut empfehlenswert für jeden, der entweder privat oder im Beruf Datenzusammenhänge besser verstehen möchte. I am not quite the intended audience- I have a maths degree- but I would say there is something here for everyone. An excellent, straightforward introduction to usefulness of numbers, which gets to the heart of why maths is so important to all of us.

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.

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. 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.Oliver Johnson is Professor of Information Theory and Director of the Institute for Statistical Science in the School of Mathematics.