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

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An excellent, straightforward introduction to usefulness of numbers, which gets to the heart of why maths is so important to all of 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. The Covid pandemic is a minefield for mathematicians and scientists and if I am one, I would try to steer clear due to the strong emotions, misinformation and the failure of maths, science and AI to live up their lofty promises. 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. Oliver Johnson is Professor of Information Theory and Director of the Institute for Statistical Science in the School of Mathematics.

We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. There are far better books on this topic and the good professor offers no new insights or better explanation on his selected maths topics. 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.The book will be published with Heligo Books, the business and smart-thinking imprint from Bonnier Books UK. I am not quite the intended audience- I have a maths degree- but I would say there is something here for everyone. g., the book by Spiegelhalter, which treats similar ideas in a deeper way but not more complicated to read. Oliver Johnson reveals how mathematical thinking can help us understand the myriad data all around us. 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.

I also find some issues with the way the concepts are explained as this could easily confuse someone unfamiliar with maths.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.