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Can I just say I got this from Kit at a conference on Friday and have read the first couple of chapters so far - it’s brilliant! Even if you have no one to promote it to I totally suggest buying your own copy! Nicole Sent from my iPhone > On 4 Sep 2019, at 17:59, Kit Yates <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Dear all, it's been a long time since I last posted. > I hope this is not an abuse of the list. > I have a book coming out tomorrow which I hope will be of interest to many of you and your associates. I am hoping to ask for help with promoting it. > If anyone feels like they'd be able to forward on the below to any of their mailing lists then I'd be most grateful. > If not then please feel free to ignore. > Thanks, Kit. > > The Maths of Life and Death > > “Kit Yates shows how our private and social lives are suffused by mathematics. This is an exquisitely interesting book. It’s a deeply serious one too and, for those like me who have little maths, it’s delightfully readable.” > Ian McEwan > > Yates explores the true stories of life-changing events in which the application (or misapplication) of mathematics has played a critical role: > patients crippled by faulty genes and entrepreneurs bankrupt by faulty algorithms; innocent victims of miscarriages of justice and the unwitting > victims of software glitches. He follows stories of investors who have lost fortunes and parents who have lost children, all because of mathematical > misunderstanding. He wrestles with ethical dilemmas from screening to statistical subterfuge and examine pertinent societal issues such as political referenda, > disease prevention, criminal justice and artificial intelligence. He shows that mathematics has something profound or significant to say on all of these > subjects, and more. > Rather than just pointing out the places in which maths might crop up, Yates also try to arm the readers with simple mathematical rules and tools which can > help them in their everyday life: from getting the best seat on the train, to keeping one’s head when on the receiving end of an unexpected test result from > the doctor. He suggests simple ways to avoid making numerical mistakes and gets his hands dirty with newsprint when untangling the figures behind the headlines. Yates > also gets up close and personal with the maths behind consumer genetics and displays maths in action as he highlights the steps we can all be taking to help halt the > spread of deadly diseases. > Maths is so much more than the esoteric subject most people left behind at school. It is the false alarms that play on our minds and the false confidence that helps us sleep at night; the stories pushed at us on social media and the memes that spread through it. Maths is the loopholes in the law and the needle that closes them; the technology that saves lives and the mistakes that put them at risk; the outbreak of a deadly disease and the best way to control it. It is the best hope we have of answering the most fundamental questions about the enigmas of the cosmos and the mysteries of our own species. It leads us on the myriad paths of our lives and lies in wait, just beyond the veil, to stare back at us as we draw our final breaths. > > Order The Maths of Life and Death here > https://amzn.to/2MkmdcM > > “Kit Yates is a natural storyteller. Through fascinating stories and examples, he shows how maths is the beating heart of so much of modern life. An exciting new voice in the world of science communication.” > Marcus du Sautoy > -- > Dr. Kit Yates > Senior Lecturer - University of Bath > Web: www.kityates.com > email: [log in to unmask] > Department for Mathematical Sciences, > University of Bath > ********************************************************************** psci-com how-to: Once subscribed, send emails for the list to [log in to unmask] If not subscribed, either subscribe here https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=psci-com or send requests for items to be posted on your behalf to [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe (or silence messages while away) send an email (any subject) to [log in to unmask] with one of the following messages (ignoring text in brackets) • signoff psci-com (to leave the list) • set psci-com nomail (to stop receiving messages while on holiday) • set psci-com mail (to resume getting messages) Contact list owner at [log in to unmask] Small print and JISCMail acceptable use policy https://sites.google.com/site/pscicomjiscmail/the-small-print Contact Jisc Helpline: Email: [log in to unmask], Telephone: 0300 300 2212 ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** psci-com how-to: Once subscribed, send emails for the list to [log in to unmask] If not subscribed, either subscribe here https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=psci-com or send requests for items to be posted on your behalf to [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe (or silence messages while away) send an email (any subject) to [log in to unmask] with one of the following messages (ignoring text in brackets) • signoff psci-com (to leave the list) • set psci-com nomail (to stop receiving messages while on holiday) • set psci-com mail (to resume getting messages) Contact list owner at [log in to unmask] Small print and JISCMail acceptable use policy https://sites.google.com/site/pscicomjiscmail/the-small-print Contact Jisc Helpline: Email: [log in to unmask], Telephone: 0300 300 2212 **********************************************************************