The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
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- ISBN13: 9780307275172
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With the born storyteller’s mandate of narrative and imaginative approach, Leonard Mlodinow vividly demonstrates how our lives are very much 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 judge.
By showing us the right scenery 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.
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Amazon Guest Review: Stephen Hawking
Published in 1988, Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time became perhaps one of the unlikeliest bestsellers in history: a not-so-dumbed-down exploration of physics and the universe that occupied the London Sunday Times bestseller list for 237 weeks. Later successes include 1995’s A Briefer History of Time, The Universe in a Nutshell, and God Made the Integers: The Algebraic Breakthroughs that Changed History. Stephen Hawking is Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.
In The Drunkard’s Walk Leonard Mlodinow provides readers with a wonderfully readable guide to how the algebraic laws of randomness affect our lives. With insight he shows how the hallmarks of chance are apparent in the course of events all around us. The understanding of randomness has brought about profound changes in the way we view our surroundings, and our universe. I am pleased that Leonard has skillfully clarified this vital branch of mathematics. –Stephen Hawking Buy Cheap The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives Online
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Punish the Luddite behavior of the publisher. Do not buy this book, you are just enabling the discrimination against blind and reading disabled, and allowing the publisher to treat you like a criminal.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I cannot judge the leader of this mindless drivel is a professor at CalTech. Has the Dean examined this book? He should. It is a dull tale of the Middle Ages with various random digits interspersed in the text. The small mathematics included in this book is suspicious, to say the least. I would require an independent audit by a reputable Math professor before I used any of the algebraic conclusions included here, especially the section about the girl named Florida. After finishing the first six chapters the boredom induced by this text combined with a lack of faith in the math caused me to ditch the book. Fortunately it was from a public library so I am not out any cash.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Yes, the artist did well. Yes, it’s an entertaining read. Sorry to say, it’s nothing new and the title a mandate from the publisher’s marketing department.
Accept that nothing is random, but only appears so due to lack of perception and/or information in a dynamic environment. Or, lay out the funds and time to be entertained by the book form of the previous sentence.
Pop science.. bah!
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
The book has a very appealing title and some enthusiastic comments by prominent people. To me but, things are reasonably different.
The leader is trying to present appealing problems in probability w/o maths – just like fiction. Well, the layman understands next to nothing and of course the scientist knows all about it – and better.
Therefore the book appeals to no one in particular. And I would not recommend it to anyone.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Fantastic book, received from Amazon in poor condition when book was said to be “new”
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5