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The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780307275172)
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xNATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the classroom to the courtroom and from financial markets to supermarkets, an intriguing and illuminating look at how randomness, chance, and probability affect our daily lives that will intrigue, awe, and inspire. "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
With the born storyteller's command of narrative and imaginative approach, Leonard Mlodinow vividly demonstrates how our lives are profoundly informed by chance and randomness and how everything from wine ratings and corporate success to school grades and political polls are less reliable than we believe. By showing us the true nature of chance and revealing the psychological illusions that cause us to misjudge the world around us, Mlodinow gives us the tools we need to make more informed decisions. From the classroom to the courtroom and from financial markets to supermarkets, Mlodinow's intriguing and illuminating look at how randomness, chance, and probability affect our daily lives will intrigue, awe, and inspire.
Author: Leonard Mlodinow
ISBN-10: 0307275175
ISBN-13: 9780307275172
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 05/05/2009
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.80d
Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 07/12/2009 pg. 20
New York Review of Books 10/08/2009 pg. 28
With the born storyteller's command of narrative and imaginative approach, Leonard Mlodinow vividly demonstrates how our lives are profoundly informed by chance and randomness and how everything from wine ratings and corporate success to school grades and political polls are less reliable than we believe. By showing us the true nature of chance and revealing the psychological illusions that cause us to misjudge the world around us, Mlodinow gives us the tools we need to make more informed decisions. From the classroom to the courtroom and from financial markets to supermarkets, Mlodinow's intriguing and illuminating look at how randomness, chance, and probability affect our daily lives will intrigue, awe, and inspire.
Author: Leonard Mlodinow
ISBN-10: 0307275175
ISBN-13: 9780307275172
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 05/05/2009
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.80d
Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 07/12/2009 pg. 20
New York Review of Books 10/08/2009 pg. 28
By Leonard Mlodinow
xLeonard 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.
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