The Doomsday Calculation: How an Equation That Predicts the Future Is Transforming Everything We Know about Life and the Universe

by William Poundstone

Book Overview

From the author of Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?, a fascinating look at how an equation that foretells the future is transforming everything we know about life, business, and the universe.

In the 18th century, the British minister and mathematician Thomas Bayes devised a theorem that allowed him to assign probabilities to events that had never happened before. It languished in obscurity for centuries until computers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316440701
• ISBN13: 9780316440707
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Little, Brown Spark
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.3"