Everything Is Predictable

How Bayes' Remarkable Theorem Explains the World

Tom Chivers (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

336 Seiten

2025
Weidenfeld & Nicolson (Verlag)
978-1-3996-0405-5 (ISBN)

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A fascinating intellectual history that takes a comparatively little-known but important idea and shows how it affects huge areas of our lives

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY TRIVEDI SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2024

'Fascinating, witty and perspective-shifting . . . I finished it not only better informed about a captivating branch of mathematics, but with an invigorating sense of greater purchase on the world' OLIVER BURKEMAN

Thomas Bayes was an eighteenth-century Presbyterian minister and amateur mathematician whose obscure life belied the profound impact of his work. Fusing biography, razor-sharp science communication and intellectual history, Everything Is Predictable is a captivating tour of Bayes' theorem and its impact on modern life. From medical testing to artificial intelligence, Tom Chivers shows how a single compelling idea can have far-reaching consequences.

Tom Chivers is a science writer and author. He was given Royal Statistical Society 'Statistical Excellence in Journalism' awards in 2018 and 2020, and was declared the Science Writer of the Year by the Association of British Science Writers in 2021. His two previous books are The Rationalist's Guide to the Galaxy and How to Read Numbers (with David Chivers).

Erscheint lt. Verlag	24.4.2025
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Geschichte der Mathematik
ISBN-10	1-3996-0405-8 / 1399604058
ISBN-13	978-1-3996-0405-5 / 9781399604055
Zustand	Neuware