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The book "The Drunkard's Walk" by Leonard Mlodinow explores the role of randomness in our lives and how it affects everything from wine ratings to political polls. Mlodinow uses storytelling and an imaginative approach to reveal the true nature of chance and the psychological illusions that cause us to misjudge the world around us. The book provides readers with the tools to make more informed decisions and shows how randomness impacts various aspects of our daily lives. The Amazon guest review by Stephen Hawking praises Mlodinow's explanation of this important branch of mathematics and highlights the author's previous successes in writing about physics and the universe.
With the born storyteller's command of narrative and imaginative approach, Leonard Mlodinow vividly demonstrates how our lives are profoundly informed by chance and randomness and how everything from wine ratings and corporate success to school grades and political polls are less reliable than we believe. By showing us the true nature of chance and revealing the psychological illusions that cause us to misjudge the world around us, Mlodinow gives us the tools we need to make more informed decisions. From the classroom to the courtroom and from financial markets to supermarkets, Mlodinow's intriguing and illuminating look at how randomness, chance, and probability affect our daily lives will intrigue, awe, and inspire.
Amazon Guest Review: Stephen Hawking Published in 1988, Stephen Hawking's
A Brief History of Time became perhaps one of the unlikeliest bestsellers in history: a not-so-dumbed-down exploration of physics and the universe that occupied the
London Sunday Times bestseller list for 237 weeks. Later successes include 1995's
A Briefer History of Time,
The Universe in a Nutshell, and
God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs that Changed History. Stephen Hawking is Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge. In
The Drunkard's Walk Leonard Mlodinow provides readers with a wonderfully readable guide to how the mathematical laws of randomness affect our lives. With insight he shows how the hallmarks of chance are apparent in the course of events all around us. The understanding of randomness has brought about profound changes in the way we view our surroundings, and our universe. I am pleased that Leonard has skillfully explained this important branch of mathematics.
--Stephen Hawking
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