TIM H A RFORD, MORE OR LES S, BBC R A D I O 4
‘Sumpter writes fascinatingly … showing the relevance of mathematics to today’s world’
Cover photograph by Mikael Wallerstedt, courtesy fotografens namn / Uppsala universitet. Cover design: Richard Green. Author photograph © Mikael Wallerstedt
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‘These aren’t the equations of Newton or Einstein – crisp relations describing the evolution of a clockwork universe. These are the equations of randomness, expectation, and imperfect information. The equations, in other words, of the real world. David Sumpter provides an entertaining tour that will change how you see the world’ S E A N C A R R O L L , A U T H O R O F S O M E T H I N G D E E P LY H I D D E N
‘Hugely entertaining, erudite and at times genuinely witty … it’s nice to be spoken to in grown-up language by a genius’ N I C K S M I T H , E &T M A G A Z I N E
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DAVID SUMPTER THE TEN EQUATIONS THAT RULE THE WORLD
‘Sometimes books about numbers come along and we’re so ecstatic that we just pop with delight. This is one of them’
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Date: 30 Sept 2021 Designer: RG Prod. Controller: Pub. Date: ISBN: 9780141991092
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