The Doomsday Calculation
William Poundstone
Broschiertes Buch

The Doomsday Calculation

How an Equation That Predicts the Future Is Transforming Everything We Know about Life and the Universe

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From the author of Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?, a fascinating look at how an equation that foretells the future is transforming everything we know about life, business, and the universe. 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' formula has become a linchpin of the digital economy. But here's where thing...
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