Shortlisted for the 2009 Royal Society Prize for Science Books.
A sharp and occasionally very funny guide to the effects Randomness has on our lives showing how our need to find patterns in the external world can lead us astray. Leonard Mdlodinow packs his text with some startling examples such as the trial of O J Simpson, Hollywood winners and clunkers and the success rates of company executives. Amazing facts, a thorough tour of all the theories of chance, it will give you a great insight into the problems of our random world.
Comparison: The Logic of Life by Tim Harford, Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely, Irrationality by Stuart Sutherland
| Primary Genre | Popular Science |
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Leonard Mlodinow reveals the psychological illusions that prevent us understanding everything from stock-picking to wine-tasting, 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 is an exhilarating, eye-opening guide to understanding our random world - read it, so you won't be left a victim of chance.
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives features in the following genres: Popular Science, eBooks of the Month, Science: general issues, Mathematics and Science, Recommendations
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives is available in Paperback
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives was written by Leonard Mlodinow and published by Penguin Books Ltd
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives has 252 pages
£11.69
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