Books by Tom Chivers
“I wish I’d read this book years ago. Bayesian statistics is all over my area of research—and, as the book argues, it’s all over everywhere, and it has long been so. But the general public is not aware of this, and even many scientists, I think, are not aware of Bayes’ theorem. In a way, the book is pretty simple. It’s about one equation, which calculates the probability of something, given a piece of evidence and your confidence in that evidence. There’s a way you go through, calculating the probability of some event, adjusting your calculations as new evidence comes in—and that’s it, really. But the author does a great way of explaining how this is counter-intuitive to a lot of people.” Read more...
Interviews where books by Tom Chivers were recommended
Popular Books of the Last Month
After reading interviews on Five Books, which books did our readers buy? Below you’ll find some of our popular books from last month, October 2024.
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Everything is Predictable: How Bayes’ Remarkable Theorem Explains the World
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Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
by Cat Bohannon -
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Your Face Belongs to Us: The Secretive Startup Dismantling Your Privacy
by Kashmir Hill -
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The Last of Its Kind: The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction
by Gísli Pálsson -
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Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality
by Venki Ramakrishnan -
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A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith
The Best Popular Science Books of 2024, recommended by John Hutchinson
The Best Popular Science Books of 2024, recommended by John Hutchinson
Every year, the judges of the Royal Society Science Book Prize put together a shortlist of the smartest, sharpest, funniest science books of the previous twelve months. We asked the chair of the 2024 panel—the leading evolutionary biomechanics researcher Professor John Hutchinson—to talk us through their picks of the best new popular science books.
