Math Analysis

How the rich and powerful use math to exploit you, and what you can do to beat them at their own game Everything we do today is recorded as data that's sold to the highest bidder. Plugging our personal data into impersonal algorithms has made government agencies more efficient and tech...

Military Secrets! How Math and Wargaming Can Prevent and Win Conflicts!In modern war, making informed decisions is key to winning & preventing conflicts. "War is Math: How to Use Wargaming to Prevent & Win Wars" offers a groundbreaking approach to understanding war through the lens of mathematics, including elementary game theory, probablity, and statistics. Wargaming enables policymakers and military strategists to develop effective strategies for preventing and resolving conflicts and winning wars. You'll get a comprehensive guide to using math in wargames, exploring its applications, ...

A “fascinating, witty, and perspective-shifting” (Oliver Burkeman, New York Times bestselling author) tour of Bayes’s theorem and its global impact on modern life from the acclaimed science writer and author of The Rationalist’s Guide to the Galaxy. At its simplest, Bayes’s theorem...

"There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil."--Bill Gates An essential guide to understanding how numbers reveal the true state of our world--exploring a wide range of topics including energy, the environment, technology, transportation, and food production. Vaclav...

From “one of the great (greatest?) contemporary popular writers on economics” (Tyler Cowen) comes a smart, lively, and encouraging rethinking of how to use statistics. Today we think statistics are the enemy, numbers used to mislead and confuse us. That’s a mistake, Tim Harford says in The...

A groundbreaking mathematician presents a new model for understanding financial markets. Benoit B. Mandelbrot, one of the century's most influential mathematicians, is world-famous for making mathematical sense of a fact everybody knows but that geometers from Euclid on down had never...

The brain is made up of 85 billion neurons, which are connected by over 100 trillion synapses. For over a century, a diverse array of researchers have been trying to find a language that can be used to capture the essence of what these neurons do and how they communicate - and how those communications create thoughts, perceptions, and actions. The language they were looking for was mathematics, and we would not be able to understand the brain as we do today without it.

Trading is a chaotic, complex, and loosely-structured game played by the smartest minds and most expensive computers in the world. It is the ultimate puzzle. Few can trade at an elite level for an extended period. The game is constantly changing and the rules, mechanics, and probabilities are difficult to observe and forever in flux. Just when you think you’ve got a plan: BAM.

Conquer the GED Math: Your Symbol-Free, Narrative-Only Guide is designed to help students succeed on the GED Math test by providing a comprehensive, easy-to-understand study resource. This guide breaks down essential math topics such as arithmetic, algebra, geometry, and data analysis in a clear, narrative format without the use of symbols or complex formulas. Each concept is explained using real-world examples, making it accessible for all learners, especially those preparing for the GED. The guide covers a wide range of topics, including working with fractions, decimals, and percentages; ...

We often think of mathematics and literature as polar opposites. But what if, instead, they were fundamentally linked? In her clear, insightful, laugh-out-loud funny debut, Once Upon a Prime, Professor Sarah Hart shows us the myriad connections between math and literature, and how understanding those connections can enhance our enjoyment of both. As the first woman to hold England’s oldest mathematical chair, Professor Hart is the ideal tour guide, taking us on an unforgettable journey through the books we thought we knew, revealing new layers of beauty and wonder.

In November 2022, OpenAI quietly released ChatGPT to the public. Within five days, it had a million users. Within two months, one hundred million. This moment marked the beginning of the most rapid technological transformation in history—one that would fundamentally reshape not just the tech industry, but every aspect of how we work, learn, and interact with information. "Puzzling AI Trends" traces the Large Language Model revolution through three distinct eras. The Pre-Cambrian Era (2022) saw AI locked within tech giants, with models costing tens of millions to train. The Cambrian ...

DESCRIPTION OF BOOKThis book takes an analytical look at mathematics and provides some important suggestions. It also points towards a better way of thinking. Hopefully, this will induce the reader to be a better thinker, at least mathematically. The book also ambitiously tackles the question of the Riemann hypothesis which represents the most important and deepest problem in mathematics, providing the possible solutions to this important problem. Importantly, the book aims to guide the reader towards greater clarity of thought and a greater understanding of the Riemann hypothesis by ...

A data-driven, scientific account of our need for speed—exploring a wide range of topics including evolution, transportation, and technology In a world obsessed with efficiency, perhaps nothing is valued as highly as being fast. Some of our greatest achievements include building planes that...