Bestselling author Professor Ian Stewart explores the history and mathematics of uncertainty. Touching on gambling, probability, statistics, financial and weather forecasts, censuses, medical studies, chaos, quantum physics, and climate, he makes...
Do Humankind’s Best Days Lie Ahead?: The Munk Debates // Steven Pinker, Matt Ridley, Alain de Botton, Malcolm Gladwell
Progress. It is one of the animating concepts of the modern era. From the Enlightenment onwards, the West has had an enduring...
"This lecture is about whether we can predict the future, or whether it is arbitrary and random. In ancient times, the world must have seemed pretty arbitrary. Disasters such as floods or diseases must have seemed to happen without warning or...