Table of Contents
Introduction Almost Everything 1
Chapter 1 Thinking Exponentially: The Sobering Limits of Power 9
Chapter 2 Sensitivity, Specificity, and Second Opinions: How Math Makes Medicine Manageable 39
Chapter 3 The Laws of Mathematics: Investigating the Role of Mathematics in the Law 75
Chapter 4 Don't Believe the Truth: Debunking Media Statistics 109
Chapter 5 Wrong Place, Wrong Time: When Our Number Systems Let Us Down 145
Chapter 6 Relentless Optimization: From Evolution to E-commerce, Life Is an Algorithm 175
Chapter 7 Susceptible, Infective, Removed: How to Stop an Epidemic 209
Epilogue Mathematical Emancipation 243
Acknowledgments 247
References 251
Index 269