Dimensions
144 x 222 x 29mm
Key insights into how probability affects our lives by one of Britain's leading science writers.
This book gives everyone access to the power of probability. Everyone who's had to get to grips with chance - whether as professors, doctors, patients, publishers, gamblers, researchers, retailers, bankers or shoppers - knows how tricky even its simplest manifestations can be. Its workings are a constant challenge to common sense, and at once its danger and its allure. Few subjects are so fascinating and profound, nor so relevant to everyday existence.
Robert Matthews uses real-life cases to demonstrate different facets of the laws of probability. He shows just how huge their reach can be and that understanding how they work can change our view of a host of everyday phenomena as well as saving us a great deal of time, money and anxiety
