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

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We use Google Analytics to see what pages are most visited, and where in the world visitors are visiting from. The author is explaining the concept of probability in plain English, avoiding the use of equations. Oliver Johnson reveals how mathematical thinking can help us understand the myriad data all around us. Johnson applies careful analysis and great common sense to an extraordinary range of applications of mathematical ideas, from football to filter bubbles – explaining formal ideas with minimum technicalities, and weighing their relevance to the real world. Numbercrunch: A Mathematician’s Toolkit For Making Sense of Your World by Professor Oliver Johnson | 9781788708333.

There are far better books on this topic and the good professor offers no new insights or better explanation on his selected maths topics. Not to mention the things much closer to home: ever wondered when the best time is to leave a party?I follow Professor Johnson on Twitter, and found him a helpful, moderate source of information during the pandemic.

This is a super fascinating, well-written and amusing guide to how an understanding of numbers can help us make sense of all the data/information around us. Numbercrunch is aimed at a general audience, and will be published as hardback, ebook and audiobook on 3 March. Johnson applies careful analysis and great common sense to an extraordinary range of applications of mathematical ideas, from football to filter bubbles - explaining formal ideas with minimum technicalities, and weighing their relevance to the real world.It is accepted by you that Daunt Books has no control over additional charges in relation to customs clearance. 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. Journeying through three sections - Randomness, Structure, and Information - we meet a host of brilliant minds, such Alan Turing, Enrico Fermi and Claude Shannon, and are equipped with the tools to cut through the noise all around us - from the Law of Large Numbers to Entropy to Brownian Motion. However, even in this topic, the good professor stumbles by trying to justify some of the official view points (of which he's a part of).

With barely an equation in sight, Numbercrunch makes a passionate case for how just a little bit more numeracy could help us all. 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, The Guardian, The Telegraph and The New York Times.He is a keen communicator of mathematical ideas and I still found him engaging in this, significantly longer, form. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Numbercrunch equips readers with the mathematical tools and thinking to understand the myriad data all around us. Numbercrunch is aimed at a general audience, and has been published as hardback, eBook and audiobook.

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. 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. And if every journalist and pundit would read even just chapter 7, our media would be so much better for it. 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.These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. g., the book by Spiegelhalter, which treats similar ideas in a deeper way but not more complicated to read.