Everything Is Predictable: How Bayes' Remarkable Theorem Explains the World
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PRODUCT OVERVIEW
- ISBN 9781399604055
- Categories [2026], BX, BXOS, JAN26, New Arrivals OS, NF ST, Non-Fiction, Science and Technology, TOP
- Author(s) Tom Chivers
- Publisher Orion Publishing Group
- Pages 336
- Format Paperback B
- Dimensions 12.7cm x 2.5cm x 19.6cm
- Weight 0.272 kg
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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.
