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The maths of life and death : why maths is (almost) everything / Kit Yates.
By: Yates, Kit [author.]
.Publisher: London : Quercus, 2019Description: xvi, 332 pages : illustrations (black and white).Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781787475427; 9781787475410; 9781787475397.Other title: Why maths is almost everything.Subject(s): Mathematics -- Popular works | Mathematics -- PhilosophyDDC classification: 510
Contents:
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.
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 510 YAT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 018101 |
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| 510 KLI Mathematics, the loss of certainty / | 510 KMI Statistical tables for economic, business and social studies / | 510 PRI The Princeton companion to mathematics / | 510 YAT The maths of life and death : | 510.9 STE The history of mathematics : a very short introduction / | 510.92 GOD Incompleteness : | 512.7 HIG Numbers : a very short introduction / |
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.