The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives

Leonard Mlodinow

The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Country
United States
Published
5 May 2009
Pages
272
ISBN
9780307275172

The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives

Leonard Mlodinow

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * From the classroom to the courtroom and from financial markets to supermarkets, an intriguing and illuminating look at how randomness, chance, and probability affect our daily lives that will intrigue, awe, and inspire.

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 Book Review

With the born storyteller’s command of narrative and imaginative approach, Leonard Mlodinow vividly demonstrates how our lives are profoundly informed by chance and randomness and how everything from wine ratings and corporate success to school grades and political polls are less reliable than we believe.

By showing us the true nature of chance and revealing the psychological illusions that cause us to misjudge the world around us, Mlodinow gives us the tools we need to make more informed decisions. From the classroom to the courtroom and from financial markets to supermarkets, Mlodinow’s intriguing and illuminating look at how randomness, chance, and probability affect our daily lives will intrigue, awe, and inspire.

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