The maths of life and death :
Yates, Kit,
The maths of life and death : why maths is (almost) everything / Why maths is almost everything Kit Yates. - xvi, 332 pages : illustrations (black and white)
Introduction : almost everything -- Thinking exponentially : exploring the awesome power and sobering limits of exponential behaviour -- Sensitivity, specificity and second opinions : why maths makes medicine matter -- The laws of mathematics : investigating the role of mathematics in law -- Don't believe the truth : debunking media statistics -- Wrong place, wrong time : the evolution of our numbering systems and how they let us down -- Relentless optimisation : the unconstrained potential of algorithms, from evolution to e-commerce -- Susceptible, infective, removed : containing disease is in our own hands -- Epilogue : mathematical emancipation.
9781787475427 9781787475410 9781787475397
GBB9B7522 bnb
019454620 Uk
Mathematics--Popular works.
Mathematics--Philosophy.
510
The maths of life and death : why maths is (almost) everything / Why maths is almost everything Kit Yates. - xvi, 332 pages : illustrations (black and white)
Introduction : almost everything -- Thinking exponentially : exploring the awesome power and sobering limits of exponential behaviour -- Sensitivity, specificity and second opinions : why maths makes medicine matter -- The laws of mathematics : investigating the role of mathematics in law -- Don't believe the truth : debunking media statistics -- Wrong place, wrong time : the evolution of our numbering systems and how they let us down -- Relentless optimisation : the unconstrained potential of algorithms, from evolution to e-commerce -- Susceptible, infective, removed : containing disease is in our own hands -- Epilogue : mathematical emancipation.
9781787475427 9781787475410 9781787475397
GBB9B7522 bnb
019454620 Uk
Mathematics--Popular works.
Mathematics--Philosophy.
510