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Escape from Model Land
- How Mathematical Models Can Lead Us Astray and What We Can Do About It
- By: Erica Thompson
- Narrated by: Kirsty Dillon
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
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Models are at the centre of everything we do. They act as metaphors that help us better understand the increasingly complex problems facing us in the modern world. Yet in recent years, the validity of the models we use has been hotly debated and there has been renewed awareness of the disastrous consequences when the makers and interpreters of models get things wrong. Drawing on contemporary examples from finance, climate and health policy, Erica Thompson explores what models are, why we need them, how they work and what happens when they go wrong.
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Insightful,
- By GH on 14-01-24
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Escape from Model Land
- How Mathematical Models Can Lead Us Astray and What We Can Do About It
- Narrated by: Kirsty Dillon
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 24-11-22
- Language: English
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Zero
- The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
- By: Charles Seife
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
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In Zero, science journalist Charles Seife follows this innocent-looking number from its birth as an Eastern philosophical concept to its struggle for acceptance in Europe, its rise and transcendence in the West, and its ever-present threat to modern physics.
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Very clever
- By elissaple on 01-02-23
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The Joy of Numbers
- By: Dr. Arthur Benjamin, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Art Benjamin
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
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Numbers. Like the alphabet, they’re one of the most elementary of concepts learned and memorized at a young age; but outside of figuring out tips and taxes, you probably haven’t given much thought to them since then. To a mathematician, every number has its own unique properties and personality - and when studied, played with, and manipulated, numbers can actually be tons of fun.
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Fantastic
- By Katarina on 28-03-23
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The Joy of Numbers
- Narrated by: Art Benjamin
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 10-03-22
- Language: English
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An Introduction to Information Theory
- Symbols, Signals and Noise
- By: John R. Pierce
- Narrated by: Kyle Tait
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
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Behind the familiar surfaces of the telephone, radio, and television lies a sophisticated and intriguing body of knowledge known as information theory. This is the theory that has permitted the rapid development of all sorts of communication, from color television to the clear transmission of photographs from the vicinity of Jupiter. Even more revolutionary progress is expected in the future.
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Doesn't translate well into an audiobook
- By Amazon Customer on 22-09-22
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An Introduction to Information Theory
- Symbols, Signals and Noise
- Narrated by: Kyle Tait
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 08-10-19
- Language: English
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Answering the Great Question- Petri Dish Foundation
- By: jwspence56
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Our story involves understanding the need for a Scientific Reformation. A reform movement that assists those teaching of science around the world will help the human race come to have a better understanding of fundamental truths. It will begin with understanding the fundamental nature of ruling bureaucratic hierarchies that are dominating education at the K-12 levels as well as in higher education. Ruling bureaucrats governing the teaching of science are repeating unmistakable patterns of stubborn behavior exhibited by powerful predecessors throughout human history. Acting as self-appointed ...
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Statistics Behind the Headlines
- ASA-CRC Series on Statistical Reasoning in Science and Society
- By: A. John Bailer, Rosemary Pennington
- Narrated by: John Bailer, Rosemary Pennington
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
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If you are looking to start developing your data self-defense and critical news consumption skills, this book is for you! It reflects a long-term collaboration between a statistician and a journalist to shed light on the statistics behind the stories and the stories behind the statistics. The only prerequisite for enjoying this book is an interest in developing the skills and insights for better understanding news stories that incorporate quantitative information.
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Statistics Behind the Headlines
- ASA-CRC Series on Statistical Reasoning in Science and Society
- Narrated by: John Bailer, Rosemary Pennington
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 14-05-24
- Language: English
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Limitless Mind
- Learn, Lead and Live Without Barriers
- By: Jo Boaler
- Narrated by: Jo Boaler
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
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When we learn, we change what we believe and how we interact with the world. This changes who we are as people and what we can achieve. Many people grow up being told they are ‘not a maths person’ or perhaps ‘not smart’. They come to believe their potential is limited. Now, however, the latest science has revealed that our identities are constantly in flux; when we learn new things, we can change our identities, increase our potential and broaden our capacity to receive new information.
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simply great
- By Amazon Customer on 15-02-20
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Limitless Mind
- Learn, Lead and Live Without Barriers
- Narrated by: Jo Boaler
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 05-09-19
- Language: English
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Love Triangle
- The Life-Changing Magic of Trigonometry
- By: Matt Parker
- Length: Not Yet Known
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Why do mobile phones work when you're on a train? What happens when you pull a pop song apart into pure sine waves and play it back on a piano? And what did mathematicians have to do with the great pig stampede of 2012? The answer to each of these questions can be found in the triangle. Join Matt Parker, stand-up comedian and author of the first ever maths book to be a No. 1 bestseller, as he uncovers the secrets of trigonometry and shares extraordinary stories about the mathematicians, philosophers and engineers who dared to take triangles seriously.
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Love Triangle
- The Life-Changing Magic of Trigonometry
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 20-06-24
- Language: English
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Mathematical Mindsets
- Unleashing Students' Potential Through Creative Math, Inspiring Messages and Innovative Teaching
- By: Jo Boaler, Carol Dweck - Foreword
- Narrated by: Pearl Hewitt
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
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Mathematical Mindsets provides practical strategies and activities to help teachers and parents show all children, even those who are convinced that they are bad at math, that they can enjoy and succeed in math. Jo Boaler - Stanford researcher, professor of math education, and expert on math learning - has studied why students don't like math and often fail in math classes. She's followed thousands of students through middle and high schools to study how they learn and to find the most effective ways to unleash the math potential in all students.
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completely changed my perspective
- By Anna Kantorowicz on 27-04-24
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Mathematical Mindsets
- Unleashing Students' Potential Through Creative Math, Inspiring Messages and Innovative Teaching
- Narrated by: Pearl Hewitt
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 10-03-20
- Language: English
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Once Upon a Prime
- The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature
- By: Sarah Hart
- Narrated by: Sarah Hart
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
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From sonnets to fairytales to experimental French literature, Once Upon a Prime takes us on an unforgettable journey through the books we thought we knew, revealing new layers of beauty and wonder. Professor Hart shows how maths and literature are complementary parts of the same quest, to understand human life and our place in the universe.
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Wonderful exploration of the maths in literature
- By Dr on 22-12-23
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Once Upon a Prime
- The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature
- Narrated by: Sarah Hart
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 13-04-23
- Language: English
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How to Read Numbers
- A Guide to Statistics in the News (and Knowing When to Trust Them)
- By: Tom Chivers, David Chivers
- Narrated by: Tom Chivers, David Chivers
- Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
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Every day, most of us will read or watch something in the news that is based on statistics in some way. Sometimes it'll be obvious—'X people develop cancer every year'—and sometimes less obvious—'How smartphones destroyed a generation'. Statistics are an immensely powerful tool for understanding the world, but in the wrong hands they can be dangerous. Introducing you to the common mistakes that journalists make and the tricks they sometimes deploy, How to Read Numbers is a vital guide that will help you understand when and how to trust the numbers in the news.
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Essential reading for adults and children alike
- By Amazon Customer on 01-05-21
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How to Read Numbers
- A Guide to Statistics in the News (and Knowing When to Trust Them)
- Narrated by: Tom Chivers, David Chivers
- Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 18-03-21
- Language: English
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Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
- Incerto, Book 1
- By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Narrated by: Joe Ochman
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
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Fooled by Randomness is the word-of-mouth sensation that will change the way you think about business and the world. Nassim Nicholas Taleb - veteran trader, renowned risk expert, polymathic scholar, erudite raconteur has penned a modern classic that turns on its head what we believe about luck and skill. Set against the backdrop of the most conspicuous forum in which luck is mistaken for skill - the world of trading - Fooled by Randomness provides captivating insight into one of the least understood factors in all our lives.
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Smug
- By Anonymous User on 17-12-19
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Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
- Incerto, Book 1
- Narrated by: Joe Ochman
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 08-01-19
- Language: English
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It All Adds Up
- The Story of People and Mathematics
- By: Mickael Launay, Stephen S. Wilson
- Narrated by: Oliver J. Hembrough
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
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From Aristotle to Ada Lovelace: a brief history of the mathematical ideas that have forever changed the world and the everyday people and pioneers behind them. The story of our best invention yet. From our ability to calculate the passing of time to the algorithms that control computers and much else in our lives, numbers are everywhere. They are so indispensable that we forget how fundamental they are to our way of life.
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Marvellous on all levels
- By Steven Orpwood on 11-01-19
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It All Adds Up
- The Story of People and Mathematics
- Narrated by: Oliver J. Hembrough
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 01-11-18
- Language: English
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At Sixes and Sevens
- How to Understand Numbers and Make Maths Easy
- By: Rachel Riley, Dr. Gareth Moore
- Narrated by: Rachel Riley
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
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Do you know your fractions from your percentages? Your adjacent to your hypotenuse? And who really knows how to do long division, anyway? Puzzled already? Don’t blame you.... But fret not! You won’t be At Sixes and Sevens for long. In this brilliant, well-rounded guide, Countdown's Rachel Riley will take you back to the very basics, allow you to revisit what you learnt at school (and may have promptly forgotten, *ahem*), build your understanding of maths from the get-go and provide you with the essential toolkit to gain confidence in your numerical abilities.
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Interesting
- By Amazon Customer on 18-11-22
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At Sixes and Sevens
- How to Understand Numbers and Make Maths Easy
- Narrated by: Rachel Riley
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 11-11-21
- Language: English
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Numbercrunch
- A Mathematician's Toolkit for Making Sense of Your World
- By: Professor Oliver Johnson
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
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Oliver Johnson reveals how mathematical thinking can help us understand the myriad data all around us. From the exponential growth of viruses to social media filter-bubbles; from share-price fluctuations to growth of computing power; from the datafication of our sports pages to quantifying climate change. Not to mention the things much closer to home: ever wondered when the best time is to leave a party? What are the chances of rain ruining your barbecue this weekend? How about which queue is the best to join in the supermarket?
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Totally gamechanging
- By Toby on 23-01-24
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Numbercrunch
- A Mathematician's Toolkit for Making Sense of Your World
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 02-03-23
- Language: English
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A Man for All Markets
- From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market
- By: Edward O. Thorp, Nassim Nicholas Taleb - foreword
- Narrated by: Edward O. Thorp
- Length: 16 hrs and 30 mins
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The incredible true story of the card-counting mathematics professor who taught the world how to beat the dealer and, as the first of the great quantitative investors, ushered in a revolution on Wall Street.
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One of the best investing books out there
- By Ronan Patrick on 14-08-20
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A Man for All Markets
- From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market
- Narrated by: Edward O. Thorp
- Length: 16 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 24-01-17
- Language: English
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A Beautiful Mind
- By: Sylvia Nasar
- Narrated by: Anna Fields
- Length: 18 hrs and 12 mins
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John Forbes Nash, Jr., a prodigy and legend by the age of 30, dazzled the mathematical world by solving a series of deep problems deemed "impossible" by other mathematicians. But at the height of his fame, Nash suffered a catastrophic mental breakdown and began a harrowing descent into insanity, resigning his post at MIT, slipping into a series of bizarre delusions, and eventually becoming a dreamy, ghostlike figure at Princeton, scrawling numerological messages on blackboards.
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Very different to the movie
- By Mr. P. D. Selman on 28-06-16
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A Beautiful Mind
- Narrated by: Anna Fields
- Length: 18 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 26-03-09
- Language: English
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The Art of Logic
- How to Make Sense in a World That Doesn't
- By: Eugenia Cheng
- Narrated by: Anna Leong Brophy
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
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Emotions are powerful. In newspaper headlines and on social media, they have become the primary way of understanding the world. But strong feelings make it more difficult to see the reality behind the rhetoric. In The Art of Logic, Eugenia Cheng shows how mathematical logic can help us see things more clearly - and know when politicians and companies are trying to mislead us.
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excellent book!
- By Shaun Solomon on 11-12-20
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The Art of Logic
- How to Make Sense in a World That Doesn't
- Narrated by: Anna Leong Brophy
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 27-04-20
- Language: English
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The Ten Equations That Rule the World
- And How You Can Use Them Too
- By: David Sumpter
- Narrated by: Sam Woolf
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
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This book is all about the equations that make our world go round. Ten of them, in fact. They are integral to everything from investment banking to betting companies and social media giants. And they can help you to increase your chance of success, guard against financial loss, live more healthily and see through scaremongering. They were known only by mathematicians - until now.
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more about morality less about maths
- By Amazon Customer on 22-07-21
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The Ten Equations That Rule the World
- And How You Can Use Them Too
- Narrated by: Sam Woolf
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 01-10-20
- Language: English
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Hidden Games
- The Surprising Power of Game Theory to Explain Irrational Human Behaviour
- By: Moshe Hoffman, Erez Yoeli
- Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
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In Hidden Games, MIT economists Moshe Hoffman and Erez Yoeli find a surprising middle ground between the hyperrationality of classical economics and the hyper-irrationality of behavioural economics. They call it hidden games. Reviving game theory, Hoffman and Yoeli use it to explain our most puzzling behaviour, from the mechanics of Stockholm syndrome and internalised misogyny to why we help strangers and have a sense of fairness.
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Hidden Games
- The Surprising Power of Game Theory to Explain Irrational Human Behaviour
- Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 07-04-22
- Language: English
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