It can be so easy to outwit happenstance.
Amusing maths tricks suitable for day-to-day use in any situation.
Every day, we have to make decisions, weigh up alternatives against each other and make estimates often without sufficient information. How sure can we be that what we anticipate will actually happen? And how can we rule out flukes? Christian Hesse, expert for statistics and probability calculation, knows how. His tips and tricks offer a good and fast basis for behaviour and decision-making in all areas of life: from love to investing money, from earning more to living longer, from the value of collective intelligence to the art of measuring the world in three figures - and a crash course for speed arithmetic is also included. Maths has never been so practical.
