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Fooled by Randomness
- The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
- By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
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This audiobook is about luck, or more precisely, how we perceive and deal with luck in life and business. It is already a landmark work, and its title has entered our vocabulary. In its second edition, Fooled by Randomness is now a cornerstone for anyone interested in random outcomes.
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Great book BUT...
- By James on 18-10-2018
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Fooled by Randomness
- The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Series: Incerto
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 07-01-2008
- Language: English
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Game Theory
- Understanding the Mathematics of Life
- By: Brian Clegg
- Narrated by: Nick Biadon
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
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Brian Clegg was always fascinated by Isaac Asimov's classic Foundation series of books, in which the future is predicted using sophisticated mathematical modelling of human psychology and behaviour. Only much later did he realise that Asimov's 'psychohistory' had a real-world equivalent: game theory. Originating in the study of probabilistic gambling games that depend on a random source—the throw of a dice or the toss of a coin—game theory soon came to be applied to human interactions: essentially, what was the best strategy to win, whatever you were doing?
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- By 91654 on 24-07-2024
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Game Theory
- Understanding the Mathematics of Life
- Narrated by: Nick Biadon
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 21-04-2022
- Language: English
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Infinite Powers
- How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
- By: Steven Strogatz
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
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Infinite Powers recounts how calculus tantalized and thrilled its inventors, starting with its first glimmers in ancient Greece and bringing us right up to the discovery of gravitational waves. Strogatz reveals how this form of math rose to the challenges of each age: how to determine the area of a circle with only sand and a stick; how to explain why Mars goes "backwards" sometimes; how to turn the tide in the fight against AIDS.
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inspiring
- By Dirk Bertels on 12-06-2020
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Infinite Powers
- How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 20-08-2019
- 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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disappointing
- By Amazon Customer on 14-03-2021
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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: 10-03-2020
- Language: English
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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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Refreshing
- By Michael McK on 14-08-2022
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The Joy of Numbers
- Narrated by: Art Benjamin
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 10-03-2022
- Language: English
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The Drunkard's Walk
- How Randomness Rules Our Lives
- By: Leonard Mlodinow
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
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In this irreverent and illuminating audiobook, acclaimed writer and scientist Leonard Mlodinow shows us how randomness, chance, and probability reveal a tremendous amount about our daily lives, and how we misunderstand the significance of everything from a casual conversation to a major financial setback. As a result, successes and failures in life are often attributed to clear and obvious causes, when in actuality they are more profoundly influenced by chance.
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a fantastic look at randomness
- By Amazon Customer on 31-08-2018
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The Drunkard's Walk
- How Randomness Rules Our Lives
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 26-06-2008
- 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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A book of two parts
- By Daylan on 31-03-2021
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The Joy of x
- A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity
- By: Steven Strogatz
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
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Many people take math in high school and promptly forget much of it. But math plays a part in all of our lives all of the time, whether we know it or not. In The Joy of x, Steven Strogatz expands on his hit New York Times series to explain the big ideas of math gently and clearly, with wit, and insight.
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Quality listen
- By Reza on 07-07-2024
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The Joy of x
- A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 30-07-2019
- Language: English
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A Most Elegant Equation
- Euler’s Formula and the Beauty of Mathematics
- By: David Stipp
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
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Bertrand Russell wrote that mathematics can exalt "as surely as poetry". This is especially true of one equation: ei(pi) + 1 = 0, the brainchild of Leonhard Euler, the Mozart of mathematics. More than two centuries after Euler's death, it is still regarded as a conceptual diamond of unsurpassed beauty. Called Euler's identity, or God's equation, it includes just five numbers but represents an astonishing revelation of hidden connections.
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A subtle and engaging overview
- By JayD on 01-01-2021
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A Most Elegant Equation
- Euler’s Formula and the Beauty of Mathematics
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 07-11-2017
- 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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Thought provoking
- By Amazon Customer on 03-04-2024
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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: 08-10-2019
- Language: English
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Standard Deviations
- Flawed Assumptions, Tortured Data, and Other Ways to Lie with Statistics
- By: Gary Smith
- Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
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As Nobel Prize-winning economist Ronald Coase once cynically observed, "If you torture data long enough, it will confess." Lying with statistics is a time-honored con. In Standard Deviations, economics professor Gary Smith walks us through the various tricks and traps that people use to back up their own crackpot theories. Sometimes, the unscrupulous deliberately try to mislead us. Other times, the well-intentioned are blissfully unaware of the mischief they are committing.
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Bitchy and brilliant
- By D V. on 27-03-2021
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Standard Deviations
- Flawed Assumptions, Tortured Data, and Other Ways to Lie with Statistics
- Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 01-06-2016
- Language: English
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Mathematics for Human Flourishing
- By: Francis Su, Christopher Jackson - contributor
- Narrated by: David Sadzin
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
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For mathematician Francis Su, a society without mathematical affection is like a city without concerts, parks, or museums. To miss out on mathematics is to live without experiencing some of humanity's most beautiful ideas. In this profound book, written for a wide audience but especially for those disenchanted by their past experiences, an award-winning mathematician and educator weaves parables, puzzles, and personal reflections to show how mathematics meets basic human desires - such as for play, beauty, freedom, justice, and love.
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Mathematics for Human Flourishing
- Narrated by: David Sadzin
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 29-05-2020
- Language: English
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Mathematics
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Timothy Gowers
- Narrated by: Craig Jessen
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
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The aim of this book is to explain, carefully but not technically, the differences between advanced, research-level mathematics and the sort of mathematics we learn at school. The most fundamental differences are philosophical, and listeners of this book will emerge with a clearer understanding of paradoxical-sounding concepts such as infinity, curved space, and imaginary numbers. The first few chapters are about general aspects of mathematical thought.
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Mathematics
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Craig Jessen
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 25-05-2021
- Language: English
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A Short Account of the History of Mathematics
- By: W. W. Rouse Ball
- Narrated by: Tony Shalhoub
- Length: 30 mins
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In his soft yet captivating voice, award-winning actor Tony Shalhoub (Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Monk) calmly tells the tale of how the ancient Greeks formalized the study of mathematics based on Phoenician teachings.
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Voice, Story, Tone - Just the right sleep mixture
- By Anonymous User on 26-03-2024
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A Short Account of the History of Mathematics
- Narrated by: Tony Shalhoub
- Length: 30 mins
- Release date: 14-05-2020
- Language: English
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Logic
- A Very Short Introduction, 2nd Edition
- By: Graham Priest
- Narrated by: Kyle Tait
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
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Logic is often perceived as having little to do with the rest of philosophy, and even less to do with real life. In this lively and accessible introduction, Graham Priest shows how wrong this conception is. He explores the philosophical roots of the subject, explaining how modern formal logic deals with issues ranging from the existence of God and the reality of time to paradoxes of probability and decision theory. Along the way, the basics of formal logic are explained in simple, non-technical terms, showing that logic is a powerful and exciting part of modern philosophy.
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The Half-life of Facts
- Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date
- By: Samuel Arbesman
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
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New insights from the science of science Facts change all the time. Smoking has gone from doctor recommended to deadly. We used to think the Earth was the center of the universe and that Pluto was a planet. For decades, we were convinced that the brontosaurus was a real dinosaur. In short, what we know about the world is constantly changing. But it turns out there’s an order to the state of knowledge, an explanation for how we know what we know.
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Evergreen book on the nature of knowledge
- By Ben Buchanan on 12-11-2023
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The Half-life of Facts
- Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 27-09-2012
- Language: English
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Exact Thinking in Demented Times
- The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science
- By: Karl Sigmund
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
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Inspired by Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and Bertrand Russell and David Hilbert's pursuit of the fundamental rules of mathematics, some of the most brilliant minds of the generation came together in post-World War I Vienna to present the latest theories in mathematics, science, and philosophy and to build a strong foundation for scientific investigation. Composed of such luminaries as Kurt Gödel and Rudolf Carnap, and stimulated by the works of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper, the Vienna Circle left an indelible mark on science.
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Exact Thinking in Demented Times
- The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 21-08-2018
- Language: English
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The Theory That Would Not Die
- How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy
- By: Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
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Bayes' rule appears to be a straightforward, one-line theorem: by updating our initial beliefs with objective new information, we get a new and improved belief. To its adherents, it is an elegant statement about learning from experience. To its opponents, it is subjectivity run amok. Sharon Bertsch McGrayne here explores this controversial theorem and the human obsessions surrounding it.
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An engaging account of subjectivist probability
- By Simon Lilburn on 18-09-2017
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The Theory That Would Not Die
- How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 30-03-2012
- Language: English
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The Doomsday Calculation
- How an Equation that Predicts the Future Is Transforming Everything We Know About Life and the Universe
- By: William Poundstone
- Narrated by: Kyle Tait
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
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In the 18th century, the British minister and mathematician Thomas Bayes devised a theorem that allowed him to assign probabilities to events that had never happened before. It languished in obscurity for centuries until computers came along and made it easy to crunch the numbers. Now, as the foundation of big data, Bayes's formula has become a linchpin of the digital economy. But here's where things get interesting: Bayes's theorem can also be used to lay odds on the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence, and on the biggest question of all: how long will humanity survive?
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Interesting and informative
- By Paul Razvan on 21-02-2021
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The Doomsday Calculation
- How an Equation that Predicts the Future Is Transforming Everything We Know About Life and the Universe
- Narrated by: Kyle Tait
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 15-10-2019
- Language: English
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On the Edge
- The Art of Risking Everything
- By: Nate Silver
- Narrated by: Nate Silver
- Length: 15 hrs and 5 mins
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In the bestselling The Signal and the Noise, Nate Silver showed how forecasting would define the age of Big Data. Now, in this timely and riveting new book, Silver investigates "The River," or those whose mastery of risk allows them to shape—and dominate—so much of modern life. These professional risk takers—poker players and hedge fund managers, crypto true-believers and blue-chip art collectors—can teach us much about navigating the uncertainty of the 21st century.
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On the Edge
- The Art of Risking Everything
- Narrated by: Nate Silver
- Length: 15 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 13-08-2024
- Language: English
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