Tom Chivers

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY TRIVEDI SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2024 'Fascinating, witty and perspective-shifting . . . I finished it not only better informed about a captivating branch of mathematics, but with an invigorating sense of greater purchase on the world' – OLIVER BURKEMAN Thomas Bayes was an eighteenth-century Presbyterian minister and amateur mathematician whose obscure life belied the profound...

Every day, most of us will read or watch something in the news that is based on statistics in some way. Sometimes it'll be obvious — 'X people develop cancer every year' — and sometimes less obvious — 'How smartphones destroyed a generation'. Statistics are an immensely powerful tool for understanding the world, but in the wrong hands they can...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY TRIVEDI SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2024 ‘Fascinating, witty and perspective-shifting’ Oliver Burkeman ‘A remarkable book about a remarkable theorem’ Will Storr ‘Witty, lively and best of all, extremely nerdy. I learned a lot and so will you’ Tim Harford Thomas Bayes was an eighteenth-century Presbyterian minister and amateur mathematician whose obscure life belied the profound impact...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY TRIVEDI SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2024 'Fascinating, witty and perspective-shifting' - Oliver Burkeman 'A remarkable book about a remarkable theorem' - Will Storr 'Witty, lively and best of all, extremely nerdy. I learned a lot and so will you' - Tim Harford Thomas Bayes was an eighteenth-century Presbyterian minister and amateur mathematician whose obscure life belied...