Everything Is Predictable: How Bayes' Remarkable Theorem Explains the World

A fascinating intellectual history that takes a comparatively little-known but important idea and shows how it affects huge areas of our lives

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 impact of his work. Fusing biography, razor-sharp science communication and intellectual history, Everything Is Predictable is a captivating tour of Bayes'' theorem and its impact on modern life. From medical testing to artificial intelligence, Tom Chivers shows how a single compelling idea can have far-reaching consequences.

• | Author: Tom Chivers
• | Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
• | Publication Date: Apr 24, 2025
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781399604055
• | ISBN-10: 1399604058