Everything Is Predictable | Tom Chivers

Fascinating, witty and perspective-shifting .
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I finished it not only better informed about a captivating branch of mathematics, but with an invigorating sense of greater purchase on the world' OLIVER BURKEMANThomas Bayes was an eighteenth-century Presbyterian minister and amateur mathematician whose obscure life belied the profound impact of his work.
Fusing biography, razor-sharp science communication and intellectual history, Everything Is Predictable is a captivating tour of Bayes' theorem and its impact on modern life.
From medical testing to artificial intelligence, Tom Chivers shows how a single compelling idea can have far-reaching consequences.