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The perfect introduction to the power of mathematics - fluent, friendly and practical.
The perfect introduction to the power of mathematics - fluent, friendly and practical.
A clear, straightforward, informative guide to understanding numbers. I wish I'd read it years ago.
An excellent, straightforward introduction to usefulness of numbers, which gets to the heart of why maths is so important to all of us.
A fine and valuable read. Johnson applies careful analysis and great common sense to an extraordinary range of applications of mathematical ideas, from football to filter bubbles - explaining formal ideas with minimum technicalities, and weighing their relevance to the real world.
Lucid and entertaining. With barely an equation in sight, Numbercrunch makes a passionate case for how just a little bit more numeracy could help us all.
Numbers don't lie but they often speak a foreign language. Professor Oliver Johnson is a superb maths-whisperer on a mission to arm his readers with the tools to distinguish sound claims from the many phoney ones that bombard us every day. Numbercrunch is an invaluable addition to the modern baloney-detection kit.
Oliver Johnson is Professor of Information Theory in the Institute for Statistical Science in the School of Mathematics at the University of Bristol. He was previously a research fellow at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge. He has frequently appeared on BBC Radio 4 and written for the Spectator, and has been quoted in a variety of newspapers including The Times, Guardian, Daily Telegraph and New York Times. Oliver is on Twitter as @BristOliver, where he tweets about maths, music and Aston Villa. He lives in Bristol.
The perfect introduction to the power of mathematics - fluent, friendly and practical.
A clear, straightforward, informative guide to understanding numbers. I wish I'd read it years ago.
An excellent, straightforward introduction to usefulness of numbers, which gets to the heart of why maths is so important to all of us.
A fine and valuable read. Johnson applies careful analysis and great common sense to an extraordinary range of applications of mathematical ideas, from football to filter bubbles - explaining formal ideas with minimum technicalities, and weighing their relevance to the real world.
Lucid and entertaining. With barely an equation in sight, Numbercrunch makes a passionate case for how just a little bit more numeracy could help us all.
Numbers don't lie but they often speak a foreign language. Professor Oliver Johnson is a superb maths-whisperer on a mission to arm his readers with the tools to distinguish sound claims from the many phoney ones that bombard us every day. Numbercrunch is an invaluable addition to the modern baloney-detection kit.
Oliver Johnson is Professor of Information Theory in the Institute for Statistical Science in the School of Mathematics at the University of Bristol. He was previously a research fellow at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge. He has frequently appeared on BBC Radio 4 and written for the Spectator, and has been quoted in a variety of newspapers including The Times, Guardian, Daily Telegraph and New York Times. Oliver is on Twitter as @BristOliver, where he tweets about maths, music and Aston Villa. He lives in Bristol.