Chance: The science and secrets of luck, randomness and probability (New Scientist) - Softcover

New Scientist

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1781255431 ISBN 13: 9781781255438

Publisher: Profile Books, 2015

Synopsis

For you to be here today reading this requires a mind-boggling series of lucky breaks, starting with the Big Bang and ending in your own conception. So it's not surprising that we persist in thinking that we're in with a chance, whether we're playing the lottery or working out the likelihood of extra-terrestrial life.

In Chance, a (not entirely) random selection of the New Scientist's sharpest minds provide fascinating insights into luck, randomness, risk and probability. From the secrets of coincidence to placing the perfect bet, the science of random number generation to the surprisingly haphazard decisions of criminal juries, it will explore these, and many other, tantalising questions.

Following on from the bestselling Nothing and Question Everything, this book will open your eyes to the weird and wonderful world of chance - and help you see when some things, in fact, aren't random at all.

About this title

About the Authors

Avidly read for over fifty years, New Scientist is the bestselling and fastest growing science magazine in the world. Question Everything is compiled and edited by Mick O'Hare, production editor of New Scientist, who is frequently interviewed on TV and radio.

Michael Brooks is the author of the bestselling non-fiction title 13 Things That Don't Make Sense [9781861976475]. He holds a PhD in quantum physics, is a consultant at New Scientist and writes a weekly column for the New Statesman.

Edition details

• Publisher: Profile Books
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1781255431
• ISBN 13: 9781781255438
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Brooks Michael