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The Drunkard's Walk by Leonard Mlodinow (2008, Hardcover) 
The Drunkard's Walk by Leonard Mlodinow (2008, Hardcover)

 
The Drunkard's Walk by Leonard Mlodinow (2008, Hardcover)

Publisher: Pantheon Books
Publication Date: 2008-05-13
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0375424040
ISBN-13: 9780375424045
Product ID: EPID63182212
Description: Mathematician Leonard Mlodinow, author of FEYNMAN'S RAINBOW and co-author with Stephen Hawking of A BRIEFER HISTORY OF TIME, has written a highly readable and mind-bending primer on the peculiar and often deceptive world of probability. ...
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Synopsis
Mathematician Leonard Mlodinow, author of FEYNMAN'S RAINBOW and co-author with Stephen Hawking of A BRIEFER HISTORY OF TIME, has written a highly readable and mind-bending primer on the peculiar and often deceptive world of probability. Using a wealth of puzzles and anecdotes, from the famous Monty Hall problem to the O.J. Simpson case, he shows the powerful role randomness plays in our everyday lives. Selected by the New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of 2008.

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Publication Date:2008-05-13

Size
Length:252 pages
Height:9.5 in
Width:6.5 in
Thickness:1.0 in
Weight:17.6 oz

Publisher's Note
Critically analyzes the role of chance and random events, forces, and factors in shaping human existence, in a readable study of how the mathematical laws of randomness control the world around us. By the author of Feynman's Rainbow. 30,000 first printing.

Industry Reviews
"Mlodinow...writes in a breezy style, interspersing probabilistic mind-benders with portraits of theorists like Jakob Bernouli, Blaise Pascal, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Pierre-Simon de Laplace and Thomas Bayes. The result is a readable crash course in randomness and statistics that includes the clearest explanation I've encountered of the Monty Hall problem...."
(06/08/2008)

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