Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
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Description
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Leonard Mlodinow's The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives is an exhilarating, eye-opening guide to understanding our random world.
Randomness and uncertainty surround everything we do. So why are we so bad at understanding them? The same tools that help us understand the random paths of molecules can be applied to the randomness that governs so many aspects of our everyday lives, from winning the lottery to road safety, and reveals the truth about the success of sporting heroes and film stars, and even how to make sense of a blood test. The Drunkard's Walk reveals the psychological illusions that prevent us understanding everything from stock-picking to wine-tasting - read it, or risk becoming another victim of chance. 'A wonderfully readable guide to how the mathematical laws of randomness affect our lives' Stephen Hawking, author of A Brief History of Time
About the Author
About the Author
Leonard Mlodinow received his doctorate in physics from the University of California, Berkeley, was an Alexander von Humboldt fellow at the Max Planck Institute, and now teaches about randomness to future scientists at Caltech. Along the way he also wrote for the television series MacGyver and Star Trek: The Next Generation. His previous books include Euclid's Window: The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace, Feynman's Rainbow: A Search for Beauty in Physics and in Life, and, with Stephen Hawking, A Briefer History of Time. He lives in South Pasadena, California.
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
"Mlodinow writes in a breezy style, interspersing probabilistic mind-benders with portraits of theorists.... The result is a readable crash course in randomness." --The New York Times Book Review
"A wonderfully readable guide to how the mathematical laws of randomness affect our lives." --Stephen Hawking, author of A Brief History of Time "[Mlodinow] thinks in equations but explains in anecdote, simile, and occasional bursts of neon. . . . The results are mind-bending." --Fortune "Even if you begin The Drunkard's Walk as a skeptic, by the time you reach the final pages, you will gain an understanding-if not acceptance-of the intuitively improbable ways that probability biases the outcomes of life's uncertainties." --Barron's "Delightfully entertaining." --Scientific American "A magnificent exploration of the role that chance plays in our lives. The probability is high that you will be entertained and enlightened by this intelligent charmer." --Daniel Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness "Mlodinow is the perfect guy to reveal the ways unrelated elements can relate and connect." --The Miami Herald "A primer on the science of probability." --The Washington Post Book World "Challenges our intuitions about probability and explores how, by understanding randomness, we can better grasp our world." --Seed Magazine "Mlodinow has an intimate perspective on randomness." --The Austin Chronicle
Publishing Information
Publishing Information
Publisher:
Vintage
Pub date:
2009-05-05
Length:
272 pages
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