The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
Autor Leonard Mlodinow Sean Pratten Limba Engleză CD-Audio – iun 2009
The rise and fall of your favorite movie star or the most reviled CEO-in fact, all our destinies-reflects chance as much as planning and innate abilities. Even Roger Maris, who beat Babe Ruth's single season home run record, was in all likelihood not great, but just lucky.
How could it have happened that a wine was given five out of five stars by one journal and called the worst wine of the decade by another? Wine ratings, school grades, political polls, and many other things in daily life 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 fresh insight into what is really meaningful and how we can make decisions based on a deeper truth. From the classroom to the courtroom, from financial markets to supermarkets, from the doctor's office to the Oval Office, Mlodinow's insights will intrigue, awe, and inspire.
Offering listeners not only a tour of randomness, chance and probability but also a new way of looking at the world, this original, unexpected journey reminds us that much in our lives is about as predictable as the steps of a stumbling man afresh from a night at a bar.
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ISBN-13: 9781596592797
ISBN-10: 1596592796
Dimensiuni: 137 x 152 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Ediția:Completă
Editura: Gildan Audio
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ISBN-10: 1596592796
Dimensiuni: 137 x 152 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Ediția:Completă
Editura: Gildan Audio
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Notă biografică
Leonard
Mlodinowreceived
his
doctorate
in
physics
from
the
University
of
California,
Berkeley,
was
an
Alexander
von
Humboldt
fellow
at
the
Max
Planck
Institute,
and
now
teaches
about
randomness
to
future
scientists
at
Caltech.
Along
the
way
he
also
wrote
for
the
television
seriesMacGyverandStar
Trek:
The
Next
Generation.
His
previous
books
includeEuclid's
Window:
The
Story
of
Geometry
from
Parallel
Lines
to
Hyperspace,Feynman's
Rainbow:
A
Search
for
Beauty
in
Physics
and
in
Life,
and
with
Stephen
Hawking,A
Briefer
History
of
Time.
He
lives
in
South
Pasadena,
California.