Skip to main content
PBS logo
 
 

Search - Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives

Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
Drunkard's Walk How Randomness Rules Our Lives
Author: Leonard Mlodinow, Leonard Mlodinow
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 t...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780141026473
ISBN-10: 0141026472
Publication Date: 3/1/2009
Pages: 272
Rating:
  ?

0 stars, based on 0 rating
Publisher: Penguin Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio CD
Members Wishing: 2
Reviews: Member | Amazon | Write a Review

Top Member Book Reviews

reviewed Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives on + 3 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
I was excited to read this book after a preview reading of the first chapter. However, the following chapters cover A LOT of statistical theory. I did learn from this book, but it wasn't quite the relaxing weekend read I was hoping it would be. I'd recommend reading Freakonomics instead of this book.
Read All 1 Book Reviews of "Drunkards Walk How Randomness Rules Our Lives"


Genres: