Leonard Mlodinow's The Drunkard's Walk How Randomness Rules Our Lives is an exhilarating eye-opening guide to understanding our random world Randomness & uncertainty surround everything we do So why are we so bad at understanding them? The same tools that help us understand the random paths of molecules can be applied to the randomness that governs so many aspects of our everyday lives from winning the lottery to road safety & reveals the truth about the success of sporting heroes & film stars & even how to make sense of a blood test The Drunkard's Walk reveals the psychological illusions that prevent us understanding everything from stock-picking to wine-tasting
- read it or risk becoming another victim of chance 'A wonderfully readable guide to how the mathematical laws of randomness affect our lives' Stephen Hawking author of A Brief History of Time ' Delightful Our lives may be shaped by chance but they are enriched by awareness
- just the sort of awareness that this fascinating book will give you' Guardian ' Mlodinow writes in a breezy style interspersing probabilistic mind-benders with portraits of theorists The result is a readable crash course in randomness' The New York Times ' Please read The Drunkard's Walk by Leonard Mlodinow a history explanation & exaltation of probability theory The results are mind-bending' Fortune Leonard Mlodinow has a Ph D has been a member of the faculty of the California Institute of Technology & a television writer in Hollywood as well as developing many award winning CD-ROMs He is currently Vice President of Emerging Technologies & R&D at Scholastic Inc & lives in New York City His previous books include A Brief History of Time which he co-authored as well as Euclid's Window & Some Time with Feynman both published by Penguin