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Chivers, Tom

Everything Is Predictable : How Bayes' Remarkable Theorem Explains the World

Everything Is Predictable : How Bayes' Remarkable Theorem Explains the World

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Author: Chivers, Tom

Biography: science, technology & medicine

Published on 24 April 2025 by Orion Publishing Co (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) in the United Kingdom.


Paperback / softback | 336 pages
198 x 129

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 BURKEMANThomas 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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