Johnson applies careful analysis and great common sense to an extraordinary range of applications of mathematical ideas, from football to filter bubbles - explaining formal ideas with minimum technicalities, and weighing their relevance to the real world. Oliver Johnson is Professor of Information Theory and Director of the Institute for Statistical Science in the School of Mathematics.

It is accepted by you that Daunt Books has no control over additional charges in relation to customs clearance.Lucid, surprising, and endlessly entertaining, Numbercrunch equips you with a definitive mathematician's toolkit to make sense of your world. Utilizing equations offers the advantage of invoking a deeper understanding of concepts that might be challenging to convey through words alone.

In our hyper-modern world, we are bombarded with more facts, stats and information than ever before.Oliver Johnson reveals how mathematical thinking can help us understand the myriad data all around us. Numbercrunch is aimed at a general audience, and will be published as hardback, ebook and audiobook on 3 March. We use Google Analytics to see what pages are most visited, and where in the world visitors are visiting from. He is a keen communicator of mathematical ideas and I still found him engaging in this, significantly longer, form.

I particularly like how Johnson uses examples from our everyday world to help us understand the concepts, from social media to football transfer fees to weather reporting.Regarded as ‘the perfect introduction to the power of mathematics – fluent, friendly and practical’ by Tom Harford, author of How to Make the World Add Up. We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed. However, even in this topic, the good professor stumbles by trying to justify some of the official view points (of which he's a part of). The author is explaining the concept of probability in plain English, avoiding the use of equations.

Journeying through the three sections of Randomness, Structure, and Information, we meet a host of brilliant minds such Alan Turing, Enrico Fermi and Claude Shannon, and we learn the tools, tips and tricks to cut through the noise all around us – from the Law of Large Numbers to Entropy to Brownian Motion. I follow Professor Johnson on Twitter, and found him a helpful, moderate source of information during the pandemic. An excellent, straightforward introduction to usefulness of numbers, which gets to the heart of why maths is so important to all of us. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.The Covid pandemic is a minefield for mathematicians and scientists and if I am one, I would try to steer clear due to the strong emotions, misinformation and the failure of maths, science and AI to live up their lofty promises.