The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
Mlodinow, Leonard
ISBN 10: 0375424040 ISBN 13: 9780375424045
Published by Pantheon, 2008
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Critically analyzes the role of chance and random events, forces, and factors in shaping human existence, in a readable study of how the mathematical laws of randomness control the world around us. By the author of Feynman's Rainbow. 30,000 first printing.
About the Author: Leonard Mlodinow received his doctorate in physics from the University of California, Berkeley, was an Alexander von Humboldt fellow at the Max Planck Institute, and now teaches about randomness to future scientists at Caltech. Along the way he also wrote for the television series MacGyver and Star Trek: The Next Generation. His previous books include Euclid's Window: The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace, Feynman's Rainbow: A Search for Beauty in Physics and in Life, and, with Stephen Hawking, A Briefer History of Time. He lives in South Pasadena, California.
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Title: The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules ...
Publisher: Pantheon
Publication Date: 2008
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: very_good