Yates, Kit, <br/><br/>
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) 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781787475427 9781787475410 9781787475397 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBB9B7522  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>019454620  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Mathematics--Popular works.<br/>Mathematics--Philosophy.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>510