Everything Is Predictable : How Bayes' Remarkable Theorem Explains the World - Tom Chivers

Everything Is Predictable

How Bayes' Remarkable Theorem Explains the World

By: Tom Chivers

Paperback | 29 July 2025 | Edition Number 1

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'Fascinating, witty and perspective-shifting . . . 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 BURKEMAN

Thomas 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.
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Fascinating, witty and perspective-shifting . . . I finished it not only better informed about a captivating branch of mathematics, but with an invigorating sense of greater purchase on the world

A remarkable book by a remarkable writer about a remarkable theorem

Witty, lively and best of all, extremely nerdy. I learned a lot and so will you

Entertaining . . . both enthralling and relatively easy to understand. I can't remember when I last enjoyed a popular maths book so much. It's a delight - POPULAR SCIENCE

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