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

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Numbercrunch: A Mathematician’s Toolkit For Making Sense of Your World by Professor Oliver Johnson | 9781788708333.With barely an equation in sight, Numbercrunch makes a passionate case for how just a little bit more numeracy could help us all. David Spiegelhalter, author o f The Art of Statistics also referred to it as ‘A fine and valuable read. Not to mention the things much closer to home: ever wondered when the best time is to leave a party? I also find some issues with the way the concepts are explained as this could easily confuse someone unfamiliar with maths. 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.

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.These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. The author is explaining the concept of probability in plain English, avoiding the use of equations. Numbercrunch is aimed at a general audience, and has been published as hardback, eBook and audiobook.

We use Google Analytics to see what pages are most visited, and where in the world visitors are visiting from. In an age driven more and more by data and misinformation this book cuts through the fudges and fiddles beloved of politicians and obfuscators and outright liars to give a modern insight into discerning what the data and information really say and how to understand it all. I’ve been led through the basic understanding of some mathematics relevant to everyday statistics I see.

Really good book for the less maths inclined amongst us with everyday examples used making it easier to relate to. 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. And if every journalist and pundit would read even just chapter 7, our media would be so much better for it.

I am not quite the intended audience- I have a maths degree- but I would say there is something here for everyone. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Lucid, surprising, and endlessly entertaining, Numbercrunch equips you with a definitive mathematician's toolkit to make sense of your world. An excellent, straightforward introduction to usefulness of numbers, which gets to the heart of why maths is so important to all of us. The book will be published with Heligo Books, the business and smart-thinking imprint from Bonnier Books UK.

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. 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). He is a keen communicator of mathematical ideas and I still found him engaging in this, significantly longer, form.

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