How to Predict Everything

Informationen zum Autor William Poundstone is the author of seventeen books including How to Predict Everything , How to Predict the Unpredictabl e and Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google? He has written for the Economist , New York Times , Harper’s and Harvard Business Review , among others. You can find out more about him on his website: william-poundstone.com Klappentext There's a useful calculation being used by Wall Street, Silicon Valley and maths professors all over the world, and it predicts that the human race has only 760 years left to live.Using its formula, we can look at the world around us with new eyes. 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 all doomed?

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: William Poundstone, Poundstone William
• Editore: Oneworld
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9781786075710
• ISBN: 978-1-78607-571-0
• Pagine: 306
• Dimensioni: 134 mm x 215 mm x 22 mm
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Matematica > Teoria delle probabilità, stocastica, statistica matematica; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia; 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