How to Predict Everything

Informationen zum Autor William Poundstone is the author of fourteen books, including the international bestseller Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google? He lives in Los Angeles. Klappentext How do you predict something that has never happened before? There's a useful calculation being employed by Wall Street, Silicon Valley and maths professors all over the world, and it predicts that the human species will become extinct in 760 years. Unfortunately, there is disagreement over how to apply the formula, and some argue that we might only have twenty years left. Originally devised by British clergyman Thomas Bayes, the theorem languished in obscurity for two hundred years before being resurrected as the lynchpin of the digital economy. With brief detours into archaeology, philology, and overdue library books, William Poundstone explains how we can use it to predict pretty much anything. What is the chance that there are multiple universes? How long will Hamilton run? Will the US stock market continue to perform as well this century as it has for the last hundred years? And are we really all doomed?

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'Thoroughly entertaining reading and it's not hard to foresee a future in which readers everywhere will find it impossible to put down.'
E&T Magazine

Product details

• Authors: William Poundstone, Poundstone William
• Publisher: Oneworld
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9781786075710
• ISBN: 978-1-78607-571-0
• No. of pages: 306
• Dimensions: 134 mm x 215 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Future Studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Business Mathematics, MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / Bayesian Analysis, Social forecasting, future studies, Popular economics, Popular and recreational mathematics, Popular mathematics