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Robin Hood Maths - Noah Giansiracusa

Robin Hood Maths

Take Control of the Algorithms That Run Your Life
Buch | Softcover
240 Seiten
2025
Torva (Verlag)
978-1-911709-80-0 (ISBN)
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In today’s data-driven world, maths is a weapon wielded by banks, insurance companies, tech firms, and government agencies. These organizations use sophisticated algorithms to calculate odds, make predictions, uncover patterns, manage risk, and optimize actions. And they treat you as another number to crunch along the way.

Robin Hood Maths explains the mathematical methods these companies and agencies use to manipulate and profit off of you. It’s easy to assume these algorithms are too complex to even understand, let alone use for yourself. But maths professor Noah Giansiracusa makes the compelling case that anyone can use these same methods, without any special training or advanced knowledge. He offers simple hacks and streamlined formulas for beating the number crunchers at their own game.

With Professor Giansiracusa as your guide, you’ll learn how to use maths to rescue your credit score and make better investments, take control of your social media, and reclaim agency over the decisions you make every day. In a society designed to take from the poor and give to the rich, maths has the potential to be a powerful democratizing force. Robin Hood Maths gives you the tools you need to think for yourself, act in your own best interest, and thrive.

Noah Giansiracusa, PhD is Associate Professor of Mathematics and Data Science at Bentley University and the recipient of multiple research grants and a teaching award. His essays and opinion pieces have been published in the Washington Post, Scientific American, TIME, Wired, Slate, and others. Robin Hood Maths is his first book for general readers.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 7.8.2025
Sprache englisch
Maße 153 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Mathematische Spiele und Unterhaltung
ISBN-10 1-911709-80-1 / 1911709801
ISBN-13 978-1-911709-80-0 / 9781911709800
Zustand Neuware
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