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Father’s Day, Biography: science, technology & medicine, Probability & statistics, Mathematical modelling, History of mathematics, Popular mathematics
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- Paperback Jul 29, 2025 | 9781399604055 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- Hardback Aug 13, 2024 | 9781399604031 | RRP $55.00 Buy Now
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- Paperback Jul 29, 2025 | 9781399604055 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- Hardback Aug 13, 2024 | 9781399604031 | RRP $55.00 Buy Now
- e-Book Apr 25, 2024 | 9781399604062 | RRP $16.99 Buy Now
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- Hardback Aug 13, 2024 | 9781399604031 | RRP $55.00 Buy Now
- e-Book Apr 25, 2024 | 9781399604062 | RRP $16.99 Buy Now
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A fascinating intellectual history that takes a comparatively little-known but important idea and shows how it affects huge areas of our lives
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY TRIVEDI SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2024
'Fascinating, witty and perspective-shifting . . . I finished it not only better informed about a captivating branch of mathematics, but with an invigorating sense of greater purchase on the world' OLIVER BURKEMAN
Thomas Bayes was an eighteenth-century Presbyterian minister and amateur mathematician whose obscure life belied the profound impact of his work. Fusing biography, razor-sharp science communication and intellectual history, Everything Is Predictable is a captivating tour of Bayes' theorem and its impact on modern life. From medical testing to artificial intelligence, Tom Chivers shows how a single compelling idea can have far-reaching consequences.
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Praise for Everything Is Predictable: How Bayes' Remarkable Theorem Explains the World
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Fascinating, witty and perspective-shifting . . . I finished it not only better informed about a captivating branch of mathematics, but with an invigorating sense of greater purchase on the world
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A remarkable book by a remarkable writer about a remarkable theorem
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Witty, lively and best of all, extremely nerdy. I learned a lot and so will you
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Entertaining . . . both enthralling and relatively easy to understand. I can't remember when I last enjoyed a popular maths book so much. It's a delight - POPULAR SCIENCE
Tom Chivers
Tom Chivers is a science writer and author. He was given Royal Statistical Society 'Statistical Excellence in Journalism' awards in 2018 and 2020, and was declared the Science Writer of the Year by the Association of British Science Writers in 2021. His two previous books are The Rationalist's Guide to the Galaxy and How to Read Numbers (with David Chivers).
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