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

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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. Absolut empfehlenswert für jeden, der entweder privat oder im Beruf Datenzusammenhänge besser verstehen möchte. Oliver Johnson reveals how mathematical thinking can help us understand the myriad data all around 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.

Numbercrunch is aimed at a general audience, and will be published as hardback, ebook and audiobook on 3 March. The book will be published with Heligo Books, the business and smart-thinking imprint from Bonnier Books UK. Numbercrunch: A Mathematician’s Toolkit For Making Sense of Your World by Professor Oliver Johnson | 9781788708333.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.

I am not quite the intended audience- I have a maths degree- but I would say there is something here for everyone.However, at times, it may be easier to grasp the concept by incorporating the appropriate equation alongside the explanation. An excellent, straightforward introduction to usefulness of numbers, which gets to the heart of why maths is so important to all of us. We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed. 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.

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. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. The author is explaining the concept of probability in plain English, avoiding the use of equations. Numbercrunch is aimed at a general audience, and has been published as hardback, eBook and audiobook.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. 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. Utilizing equations offers the advantage of invoking a deeper understanding of concepts that might be challenging to convey through words alone. Das Buch greift alltagsnahe Themen auf und zeigt wie mit etwas Systematik und einem praxisrelevanten mathematischen Basisverständnis der Sachverhalt rational erklärt werden kann. Numbercrunch equips readers with the mathematical tools and thinking to understand the myriad data all around us.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, Guardian, Daily Telegraph and New York Times.