The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives Export

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TY - BOOK ID - citeulike:2931188 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2931188 N2 - **Amazon Guest Review: Stephen Hawking** > Published in 1988, Stephen Hawking's <i>A Brief History of Time<i> became perhaps one of the unlikeliest bestsellers in history: a not-so-dumbed-down exploration of physics and the universe that occupied the _London Sunday Times_ bestseller list for 237 weeks. Later successes include 1995's _A Briefer History of Time_, _The Universe in a Nutshell_, and _God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs that Changed History_. Stephen Hawking is Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge. > <img align="left" border=0 src="http: /g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/books/promos/rando/hawking.jpg"/> In _The Drunkard's Walk_ Leonard Mlodinow provides readers with a wonderfully readable guide to how the mathematical laws of randomness affect our lives. With insight he shows how the hallmarks of chance are apparent in the course of events all around us. The understanding of randomness has brought about profound changes in the way we view our surroundings, and our universe. I am pleased that Leonard has skillfully explained this important branch of mathematics. _--Stephen Hawking_ ><br> * * * SN - 0375424040 TI - The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives PB - Pantheon KW - chance AU - Mlodinow, Leonard PY - 2008/05/13/ UR - http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&amp;path=ASIN/0375424040 ER -