Everything Is Predictable: How Bayes’ Remarkable Theorem Explains the World – Tom Chivers

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.

 

*Shortlisted for the Royal Society Trivedi science book prize 2024*

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

 

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Format: Paperback
Aantal pagina’s: 336