in This Irreverent And Illuminating Book, Acclaimed Writer And Scientist Leonard Mlodinow Shows Us How Randomness, Change, And Probability Reveal A Tremendous Amount About Our Daily Lives, And How We Misunderstand The Significance Of Everything From A Casual Conversation To A Major Financial Setback. As A Result, Successes And Failures In Life Are Often Attributed To Clear And Obvious Cases, When In Actuality They Are More Profoundly Influenced By Chance.
How Could It Have Happened That A Wine Was Given Five Out Of Five Stars, The Highest Rating, In One Journal And In Another It Was Called The Worst Wine Of The Decade? Mlodinow Vividly Demonstrates How Wine Ratings, School Grades, Political Polls, And Many Other Things In Daily Life Are Less Reliable Than We Believe. By Showing Us The True Nature Of Change And Revealing The Psychological Illusions That Cause Us To Misjudge The World Around Us, Mlodinow Gives Fresh Insight Into What Is Really Meaningful And How We Can Make Decisions Based On A Deeper Truth. From The Classroom To The Courtroom, From Financial Markets To Supermarkets, From The Doctor's Office To The Oval Office, Mlodinow's Insights Will Intrigue, Awe, And Inspire.
Offering Readers Not Only A Tour Of Randomness, Chance, And Probability But Also A New Way Of Looking At The World, This Original, Unexpected Journey Reminds Us That Much In Our Lives Is About As Predictable As The Steps Of A Stumbling Man Fresh From A Night At The Bar.
the New York Times - George Johnsonmlodinowthe Author Of feynman's Rainbow, Euclid's Window And, With Stephen Hawking, a Briefer History Of Timewrites In A Breezy Style, Interspersing Probabilistic Mind-benders With Portraits Of Theorists Like Jakob Bernoulli, Blaise Pascal, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Pierre-simon De Laplace And Thomas Bayes. The Result Is A Readable Crash Course In Randomness And Statistics That Includes The Clearest Explanation I've Encountered Of The Monty Hall Problem (named For The M.c. Of The Old Tv Game Show Let's Make A Deal).
Categories:
- Politics & Social Sciences
- Philosophy
- Social Philosophy
- Philosophy
Publisher : Pantheon
Author : Mlodinow, Leonard
Language : English
Edition : 1st UK Edition
Published :2008-05-13
Number Of Pages : 272
Binding : hardcover
ISBN-10 : 0375424040
ISBN-13 : 9780375424045
Item weight : 1.2 lb
Dimensions : 0.9 in x 6.4 in x 9.2 in
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