The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives

The understanding of randomness has brought about profound changes in the way we view our surroundings, and our universe. In The Drunkard’s Walk Leonard Mlodinow provides readers with a wonderfully readable guide to how the mathematical laws of randomness affect our lives. Guest Review: Stephen Hawking Published in 1988, Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time became perhaps one of the unlikeliest bestsellers in history: a not-so-dumbed-down exploration of physics and the universe that occup

and lives in New York City. He is currently Vice President of Emerging Technologies and R&D at Inc. Randomness and uncertainty surround everything we do. Leonard Mlodinow's The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives is an exhilarating, eye-opening guide to understanding our random world. 'A wonderfully readable guide to how the mathematical laws of randomness affect our lives' Stephen Hawking, author of A Brief History of Time 'Delightful Our lives may be shaped by chance, but they are enriched by awareness - just the sort of awareness that this fascinating book will give you' Guardian 'Mlodinow writes in a breezy style, interspersing probabilistic mind-benders with portraits of theorists The result is a readable crash course

Well Organized and Humorous Explanation of Randomness Math, history, and psychology all wrapped up in an often funny, and consistently well written 220 pages. It definitely falls into the page-turner category, and while there is some math, even the math phobic likely will enjoy it. Ironically, while the book focuses on the impact of randomness in world events and our personal lives, it is very well organized. Yet there is no reason why you shouldn't. Kindle Customer said Startling. Decades after studying mathematics and a shattered of probability and statistics, I found the explanations in the book more comprehensible than anything I had read before. A great opportunity to examine how you arrived where you are and the random events that guided you.. Randomness rules A great read, perhaps because the message coincides so well with my own outlook on life: life is random and ruled by uncertainties that are beyond our control, although I continue to make plans because the only way to live is to pretend that you know what will happen tomorrow, next week or a year from now, despite the fact that you have no idea what will happen when you turn the next street corne