In our hyper-modern world, we are bombarded with more facts, stats and information than ever before. 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.

g., the book by Spiegelhalter, which treats similar ideas in a deeper way but not more complicated to read. Das Buch greift alltagsnahe Themen auf und zeigt wie mit etwas Systematik und einem praxisrelevanten mathematischen Basisverständnis der Sachverhalt rational erklärt werden kann. Oliver Johnson is Professor of Information Theory and Director of the Institute for Statistical Science in the School of Mathematics at the University of Bristol.He has appeared on Radio 4's PM and Today , and has written for The Sunday Times , Spectator , Guardian and other outlets. Really good book for the less maths inclined amongst us with everyday examples used making it easier to relate to. Lucid, surprising, and endlessly entertaining, Numbercrunch equips you with a definitive mathematician's toolkit to make sense of your world.

Numbercrunch: A Mathematician’s Toolkit For Making Sense of Your World by Professor Oliver Johnson | 9781788708333.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).

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. I’ve been led through the basic understanding of some mathematics relevant to everyday statistics I see. It is accepted by you that Daunt Books has no control over additional charges in relation to customs clearance. I follow Professor Johnson on Twitter, and found him a helpful, moderate source of information during the pandemic. Oliver Johnson reveals how mathematical thinking can help us understand the myriad data all around us.Journeying through the three sections of Randomness, Structure, and Information, we meet a host of brilliant minds such Alan Turing, Enrico Fermi and Claude Shannon, and we learn the tools, tips and tricks to cut through the noise all around us – from the Law of Large Numbers to Entropy to Brownian Motion. Professor Oliver Johnson is a superb maths-whisperer on a mission to arm his readers with the tools to distinguish sound claims from the many phoney ones that bombard us every day. With barely an equation in sight, Numbercrunch makes a passionate case for how just a little bit more numeracy could help us all. 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.