My new book, "How To Make The World Add Up", is published today in the UK and around the world (except US/Canada). Will this year be 1954 all over again? Forgive me, I have become obsessed with 1954, not because it offers another example of a pandemic (that was 1957)...
NEWS! My new book, "How To Make The World Add Up", is out tomorrow around the world (except US / Canada). Ordering a copy early, online or from your local bookshop is enormously helpful: it prods review interest, encourages physical bookshops to order and display the...
https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?p=CAD6536215675 My new book, "How To Make The World Add Up", is out tomorrow around the world (except US / Canada). Ordering a copy early, online or from your local bookshop is enormously helpful: it prods review interest, encourages...
NEWS! My new book, "How To Make The World Add Up", is out next week around the world (except US / Canada). Pre-ordering a copy online or from your local bookshop is enormously helpful: it prods review interest, encourages physical bookshops to order and display the...
Upcoming events in support of the "How To Make The World Add Up" book tour. Saturday 5th September, 7,10pm BST The Data Detectives - a session with FT data visualisation wizard, John Burn-Murdoch, at the FT Weekend Festival online. Monday 7th September, 2.35pm BST -...
The Boeing 747 took another step towards retirement recently. British Airways, the operator of the largest fleet of passenger 747s, announced that the distinctive aeroplane would not be returning to service after the pandemic. For all the rightful concern about the...
It’s 1963. A young psychologist named Bob Rosenthal conducts an experiment in which his assistants place rats in mazes, and then time how long it takes the rats to find the exit. They are housed in two cages: one for the smartest rats and one for rodent mediocrities....
I had fun with Matt Parker - the world's best Stand Up Mathematician - making this video about bad number analogies, and how to use "landmark numbers" to make the world add up. To pre-order signed copies of “How To Make The World Add Up”, do please head over...
I spoke to Brady Haran of Numberphile about one of the most famous stories in statistics - and there's an unpleasant twist, I'm afraid. To pre-order signed copies of "How To Make The World Add Up", do please head over to MathsGear.