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I’ve been led through the basic understanding of some mathematics relevant to everyday statistics I see. Journeying through three sections - Randomness, Structure, and Information - we meet a host of brilliant minds, such Alan Turing, Enrico Fermi and Claude Shannon, and are equipped with the tools to cut through the noise all around us - from the Law of Large Numbers to Entropy to Brownian Motion. He is a keen communicator of mathematical ideas and I still found him engaging in this, significantly longer, form.These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. And if every journalist and pundit would read even just chapter 7, our media would be so much better for it.

With barely an equation in sight, Numbercrunch makes a passionate case for how just a little bit more numeracy could help us all.

Regarded as ‘the perfect introduction to the power of mathematics – fluent, friendly and practical’ by Tom Harford, author of How to Make the World Add Up. 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. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.