Sobre El Autor
Kit Yates is a senior lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Sciences and codirector of the Centre for Mathematical Biology at the University of Bath. He completed his PhD in mathematics at the University of Oxford in 2011. His research into mathematical biology has been covered by the BBC, the mostrar más Guardian, the Telegraph, the Daily Mail, RT, Scientific American, and Reuters, among other media outlets. The Math of Life and Death is his first book. mostrar menos
Obras de Kit Yates
How to Expect the Unexpected: The Science of Making Predictions―and the Art of Knowing When Not To (2023) 14 copias
How to Expect the Unexpected: The Science of Making Predictions and the Art of Knowing When Not To (2023) 3 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1985
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- United Kingdom
- País (para mapa)
- United Kingdom
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Manchester, England
- Biografía breve
- Kit Yates (born 1985) is a British academic and author of popular science books. Yates is a Senior Lecturer in Mathematical Biology at the University of Bath and co-director of the Centre for Mathematical Biology. He has a diverse range of research interests and is a vocal advocate the empowerment of people through the communication of science.
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The Math of Life and Death: 7 Mathematical P… por Kit Yates
Good grief, an alternate title could very well be "2020: all the ways the world will quantitatively fall apart."
(Romanian translation) Explicații matematice ale unor lucruri foarte serioase sunt povestite clar si amuzant cu ambiția de a evita formulele și definițiile pe ne-am aștepta să le găsim într-o carte al cărui titlu începe cu "Matematica ...". O lectură adictivă!
No Formulas. Just Numb3rs. In this book about how math shapes our lives, British math professor Yates doesn't take us into the algebra, geometry, and even trigonometry that we all use daily - whether we realize it or not. Instead, he takes an approach similar to the now decade old US television show Numb3rs, starring David Krumholtz and Rob Morrow, wherein he shows applications of higher level mathematics in fields such as epidemiology, medicine, law, journalism, elections, and several others. Yates cites real world examples including unjust convictions and Ebola outbreaks and many others to show how math was used incorrectly and what the math actually showed in that situation, to help the reader begin to get an overall sense of math without getting bogged down in the technical calculations. Truly an excellent book for even the more arithmophobic among us, as it shows the numbers all around us and explains how we can have a better sense of them.
Disclaimers: 1) I LOVED Numb3rs back in the day and would still be watching it if it were still on the air. 2) I have a computer science degree and very nearly got secondary mathematics education and mathematics bachelors degrees at the same time as my CS one - so obviously I'm a bit more attuned to math than others.… (más)
Disclaimers: 1) I LOVED Numb3rs back in the day and would still be watching it if it were still on the air. 2) I have a computer science degree and very nearly got secondary mathematics education and mathematics bachelors degrees at the same time as my CS one - so obviously I'm a bit more attuned to math than others.… (más)
Very interesting and readable book about how maths are important in everyone’s life
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 6
- Miembros
- 207
- Popularidad
- #106,920
- Valoración
- 3.9
- Reseñas
- 8
- ISBNs
- 18
- Idiomas
- 6