醉汉的脚步：随机性如何主宰我们的生活 英文原版 The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives

基本信息

Format Paperback | 272 pages

Dimensions 129 x 198 x 16mm | 202g

Publication date 02 Apr 2009

Publisher Penguin Books Ltd

Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom

Language English

ISBN10 0141026472

ISBN13 9780141026473

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

内容简介

《醉汉的脚步:随机性如何主宰我们的生活》内容简介：你知道吗。在去买彩票的路上因车祸身亡的可能性。是彩票中奖的可能性的两倍！打破了贝比·鲁斯本垒打纪录的奇人罗杰·马立斯，也非常可能仅仅是幸运而非伟大！一种葡萄酒被某本刊物给予了五颗星的*高评分，却被另一本刊物评为一个年代中*差的葡萄酒，这是怎么回事？

在这本颠覆常识又具有启蒙性的书中，列纳德·蒙洛迪诺通过解开偶然性的真实本性。以及导致我们误判周遭世界的那些心理错觉。生动地展示了什么是真正有意义的东西。而我们又如何才能在一个更深层次真理的基础上。来进行我们的决策。

《醉汉的脚步:随机性如何主宰我们的生活》带给你的。不仅是在随机性、偶然性和概率中的一次漫游，还是一个看待世界的全新视角。它同时提醒着我们，生活中的许多事情。大致就如同刚在酒吧待了一夜的家伙那蹒跚的步履一般难以预测。

Leonard Mlodinow's The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives is an exhilarating, eye-opening guide to understanding our random world.

Randomness and uncertainty surround everything we do.

So why are we so bad at understanding them?

The same tools that help us understand the random paths of molecules can be applied to the randomness that governs so many aspects of our everyday lives, from winning the lottery to road safety, and reveals the truth about the success of sporting heroes and film stars, and even how to make sense of a blood test.

The Drunkard's Walk reveals the psychological illusions that prevent us understanding everything from stock-picking to wine-tasting - read it, or risk becoming another victim of chance.

'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 in randomness'

The New York Times

作者简介

列纳德·蒙洛迪诺的著作还包括，《时间简史（普及版）》（与史蒂芬·霍金合著），《费曼的彩虹——物理大师的*后24堂课》，《欧几里得之窗——从平行线到超空间的几何学故事》。儿童读物： （与马修·科斯特罗（Matt Costello）合著），《*后的恐龙》，《泰坦尼克猫》。

'Please read The Drunkard's Walk by Leonard Mlodinow, a history, explanation, and exaltation of probability theory ... The results are mind-bending'

Fortune

Leonard Mlodinow has a Ph.D., has been a member of the faculty of the California Institute of Technology and a television writer in Hollywood, as well as developing many award winning CD-ROMs. He is currently Vice President of Emerging Technologies and R&D at Scholastic Inc. and lives in New York City. His previous books include A Brief History of Time, which he co-authored, as well as Euclid's Window and Some Time with Feynman, both published by Penguin.