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The Half-life of Facts
- Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date
- By: Samuel Arbesman
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
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New insights from the science of science Facts change all the time. Smoking has gone from doctor recommended to deadly. We used to think the Earth was the center of the universe and that Pluto was a planet. For decades, we were convinced that the brontosaurus was a real dinosaur. In short, what we know about the world is constantly changing. But it turns out there’s an order to the state of knowledge, an explanation for how we know what we know.
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Evergreen book on the nature of knowledge
- By Ben Buchanan on 12-11-2023
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The Half-life of Facts
- Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 27-09-2012
- Language: English
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The Blackjack Life
- A Journey Through the Inner World of Card Counting, the Lessons of Teamwork, and the Clandestine Pursuit of Beating the Odds
- By: Nathaniel Tilton
- Narrated by: Joseph Bevilacqua
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Nathaniel Tilton was leading an ordinary existence in his early30s as a financial advisor in Boston. Then, without a destination in mind, he set out to experience life in more meaningful ways. His path was forged when he met famed MIT blackjack team member Semyon Dukach, who inspired Nathaniel to become a world-class blackjack player.
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The Blackjack Life
- A Journey Through the Inner World of Card Counting, the Lessons of Teamwork, and the Clandestine Pursuit of Beating the Odds
- Narrated by: Joseph Bevilacqua
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 17-05-2018
- Language: English
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The Joy of x
- A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity
- By: Steven Strogatz
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Many people take math in high school and promptly forget much of it. But math plays a part in all of our lives all of the time, whether we know it or not. In The Joy of x, Steven Strogatz expands on his hit New York Times series to explain the big ideas of math gently and clearly, with wit, and insight.
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Quality listen
- By Reza on 07-07-2024
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The Joy of x
- A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 30-07-2019
- Language: English
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Gladiators, Pirates and Games of Trust
- How Game Theory, Strategy and Probability Rule Our Lives
- By: Haim Shapira
- Narrated by: Richard Lydon
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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An accessible, light-hearted exploration into game theory. Haim Shapira describes what it is, why it is important, and how it can help us in our daily lives. This audiobook provides many humorous anecdotes and insightful examples of how our daily lives are affected by game theory. Game theory is the mathematical formalization of interactive decision-making - it assumes that each player's goal is to maximize his/her benefit, whatever it may be. Players may be friends, foes, political parties, states, or any entity that behaves interactively, whether collectively or individually.
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Gladiators, Pirates and Games of Trust
- How Game Theory, Strategy and Probability Rule Our Lives
- Narrated by: Richard Lydon
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 13-09-2019
- Language: English
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Journey to the Edge of Reason
- The Life of Kurt Gödel
- By: Stephen Budiansky
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Nearly a hundred years after its publication, Kurt Gödel's famous proof that every mathematical system must contain propositions that are true - yet never provable - continues to unsettle mathematics, philosophy, and computer science. Yet unlike Einstein, with whom he formed a warm and abiding friendship, Gödel has long escaped all but the most casual scrutiny of his life.
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Can’t pronounce Godel...
- By Dean on 20-06-2021
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Journey to the Edge of Reason
- The Life of Kurt Gödel
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 11-05-2021
- Language: English
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The Doomsday Calculation
- How an Equation that Predicts the Future Is Transforming Everything We Know About Life and the Universe
- By: William Poundstone
- Narrated by: Kyle Tait
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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In the 18th century, the British minister and mathematician Thomas Bayes devised a theorem that allowed him to assign probabilities to events that had never happened before. It languished in obscurity for centuries until computers came along and made it easy to crunch the numbers. Now, as the foundation of big data, Bayes's formula has become a linchpin of the digital economy. But here's where things get interesting: Bayes's theorem can also be used to lay odds on the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence, and on the biggest question of all: how long will humanity survive?
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Interesting and informative
- By Paul Razvan on 21-02-2021
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The Doomsday Calculation
- How an Equation that Predicts the Future Is Transforming Everything We Know About Life and the Universe
- Narrated by: Kyle Tait
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 15-10-2019
- Language: English
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Counting
- Humans, History and the Infinite Lives of Numbers
- By: Benjamin Wardhaugh
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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What has counting meant to different cultures and different individuals? In this book, historian and mathematician Benjamin Wardhaugh explores stories from all over the world and from every period of human history, from the African Stone Age to cyberspace; from Assyrian kings to Chinese peasants. Weaving these histories together, Wardhaugh shows the ways in which counting has been continually reinvented over time, through language, writing, counters and machines.
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Counting
- Humans, History and the Infinite Lives of Numbers
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 18-07-2024
- Language: English
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Thinking Like a Mathematician
- Unlocking Logic, Probability, and Problem-Solving for Everyday Life
- By: Kevin L Whitworth
- Narrated by: Christina Morgan
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Thinking Like a Mathematician: Unlocking Logic, Probability, and Problem Solving for Everyday Life is your guide to mastering the art of mathematical thinking—not just for solving equations, but for navigating the complexities of life with clarity and confidence. Whether you're making decisions under uncertainty, analyzing patterns in data, or simply trying to approach challenges with a sharper mind, this book reveals how the principles of mathematics can transform the way you think.
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Thinking Like a Mathematician
- Unlocking Logic, Probability, and Problem-Solving for Everyday Life
- Narrated by: Christina Morgan
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
- Release date: 08-09-2025
- Language: English
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The Shape of a Life
- One Mathematician’s Search for the Universe’s Hidden Geometry
- By: Shing-Tung Yau, Steve Nadis
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Harvard geometer and Fields medalist Shing-Tung Yau has provided a mathematical foundation for string theory, offered new insights into black holes, and mathematically demonstrated the stability of our universe. In this autobiography, Yau reflects on his improbable journey to becoming one of the world’s most distinguished mathematicians. With complicated ideas explained for a broad audience, listeners not only get insights into the life of an eminent mathematician, but also an accessible way to understand advanced and highly abstract concepts in mathematics and theoretical physics.
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The Shape of a Life
- One Mathematician’s Search for the Universe’s Hidden Geometry
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 30-07-2019
- Language: English
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Simply Gödel
- By: Richard Tieszen
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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In Simply Gödel, Richard Tieszen traces Kurt Gödel’s life and career, from his early years in tumultuous, culturally rich Vienna to his many brilliant achievements as a member of IAS, as well as his repeated battles with mental illness. In discussing Gödel’s ideas, Tieszen not only provides an accessible explanation of the incompleteness theorems, but explores some of his lesser known writings, including his thoughts on time travel and his proof of the existence of God.
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Simply Gödel
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Series: Great Lives, Book 8
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 18-06-2018
- Language: English
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Quantum Physics for Beginners
- Simple Illustrated Guide to Discover with Practical Explanations the Paradoxes of the Life and Universe Reconsidering Reality
- By: Dean Sommers
- Narrated by: Derik Hendrickson
- Length: 3 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Are you fascinated by the laws of nature, quantum physics, and its basic concepts that seem meaningless? Quantum mechanics is a field that attempts to understand the behavior of subatomic objects using mathematical notions. The book explains uncertainty and time dependence by further elaborating on the principles of quantum states. It also describes the entanglement of particle and wave states, thereby offering interested listeners the possibility of understanding physics at a slower tempo.
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Quantum Physics for Beginners
- Simple Illustrated Guide to Discover with Practical Explanations the Paradoxes of the Life and Universe Reconsidering Reality
- Narrated by: Derik Hendrickson
- Length: 3 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 01-02-2022
- Language: English
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What Are the Odds?
- The Statistics of Real Life
- By: James Johnson
- Narrated by: Connor Felix
- Length: 42 mins
- Unabridged
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What Are the Odds? is your intro to understanding the hidden mathematics of everyday life. From coin flips to casinos, lightning strikes to love stories, this book walks the line between probability and poetry—bringing clarity to the chaos and calm to the randomness. Through twelve sharp chapters (plus a bonus finale), JJ cracks open real-life situations with statistical insight, humor, and heart. You'll learn why the coin isn't fair, why streaks are a lie, and how even your tiniest decisions might ripple through the universe in ways you’ll never see coming. No math degree required. No charts.
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What Are the Odds?
- The Statistics of Real Life
- Narrated by: Connor Felix
- Length: 42 mins
- Release date: 24-06-2025
- Language: English
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A Numerate Life
- A Mathematician Explores the Vagaries of Life, His Own and Probably Yours
- By: John Allen Paulos
- Narrated by: John Allen Paulos
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
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What part of memory is reliable fact, what part creative embellishment? Which favorite presuppositions are unfounded, which statistically biased? By conjoining two opposing mind-sets - the suspension of disbelief required in storytelling and the skepticism inherent in the scientific method - best-selling mathematician John Allen Paulos has created an unusual hybrid, a composite of personal memories and mathematical approaches to reevaluating them.
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A Numerate Life
- A Mathematician Explores the Vagaries of Life, His Own and Probably Yours
- Narrated by: John Allen Paulos
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 30-11-2015
- Language: English
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The Life-Changing Magic of Numbers
- How Maths Can Make Life Better
- By: Bobby Seagull
- Narrated by: Bobby Seagull
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Once you know how to see them, numbers are all around us - buried in the dimensions of buildings and encoding the data on our favourite gadgets. They’re a beautiful system of patterns and codes but also an essential tool that can guide our daily decisions, change our behaviour and even predict the future - if we can just learn how to use them right.
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The Life-Changing Magic of Numbers
- How Maths Can Make Life Better
- Narrated by: Bobby Seagull
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 25-10-2018
- Language: English
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Hidden Harmonies
- The Lives and Times of the Pythagorean Theorem
- By: Robert Kaplan, Ellen Kaplan
- Narrated by: Piers Gibbon
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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A squared plus b squared equals c squared. It sounds simple, doesn’t it? Yet this familiar expression opens a gateway into the riotous garden of mathematics, and sends us on a journey of exploration in the company of two inspired guides, Robert and Ellen Kaplan. With wit, verve, and clarity, they trace the life of the Pythagorean theorem, from ancient Babylon to the present, visiting along the way Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, President James Garfield, and the Freemasons - not to mention the elusive Pythagoras himself.
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Hidden Harmonies
- The Lives and Times of the Pythagorean Theorem
- Narrated by: Piers Gibbon
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 27-02-2013
- Language: English
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Gunpowder and Geometry
- The Life of Charles Hutton, Pit Boy, Mathematician and Scientific Rebel
- By: Benjamin Wardhaugh
- Narrated by: Jim Barclay
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
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August, 1755. Newcastle, on the north bank of the Tyne. In the fields, men and women are getting the harvest in. Sunlight or rain. Scudding clouds and backbreaking labour. Three hundred feet underground, young Charles Hutton is at the coalface. Cramped, dust choked, wielding a five-pound pick by candlelight. Eighteen years old, he’s been down the pits on and off for more than a decade, and now it looks like a life sentence. No unusual story, although Charles is a clever lad - gifted at maths and languages - and for a time he hoped for a different life. Many hoped.
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Gunpowder and Geometry
- The Life of Charles Hutton, Pit Boy, Mathematician and Scientific Rebel
- Narrated by: Jim Barclay
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 07-02-2019
- Language: English
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Outnumbered
- Exploring the Algorithms That Control Our Lives
- By: David Sumpter
- Narrated by: David West
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Our increasing reliance on technology and the Internet has opened a window for mathematicians and data researchers to gaze through into our lives. Using the data they are constantly collecting about where we travel, where we shop, what we buy, what interests us, they can begin to predict our daily habits, and increasingly we are relinquishing our decision making to algorithms - are we giving up this up too easily?
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Outnumbered
- Exploring the Algorithms That Control Our Lives
- Narrated by: David West
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 17-05-2018
- Language: English
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What the Luck?
- The Surprising Role of Chance in Our Everyday Lives
- By: Gary Smith
- Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
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Freakonomics showed how economic calculations can explain seemingly counterintuitive decision-making. Thinking, Fast and Slow helped listeners identify a host of small cognitive errors that can lead to miscalculations and irrational thought. In What the Luck?, statistician and author Gary Smith sets himself a similar goal, and explains - in clear, understandable, and witty prose - how a statistical understanding of luck can change the way we see just about every aspect of our lives.
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What the Luck?
- The Surprising Role of Chance in Our Everyday Lives
- Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 19-09-2016
- Language: English
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Tπ Talk 'Intuition' - What is it and How has it benefitted your life or hindered it ?
- By: Tπ
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In this episode of Tπ Talk, we delve into the fascinating world of intuition - that innate, unexplainable feeling that guides us in making decisions and navigating life's complexities. Intuition often serves as a silent but powerful compass, leading us toward choices that resonate with our inner selves and align with our deepest values.We discuss what intuition is and explore its mysterious workings - how it communicates subtle messages, sparks inspiration, and offers insights beyond logical reasoning. Through personal anecdotes and shared experiences, we reflect on how intuition has shaped ...
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The Formula for Success
- How to Win at Life Using Your Own Personal Algorithm
- By: Samuel Leach
- Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
- Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins
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At 20 years of age, Samuel Leach was studying at college. He appeared to be a typical student, but there was something different about him. While his classmates were engrossed in their studies, as well as their burgeoning social lives, Samuel was adding another facet to his education. He was teaching himself the science and art of trading. With nothing more than a boxer's heart and drive, Samuel turned £2k into £178k in his first year, and a few short years later, he rose to global renown by building his new enterprise to become a multi-million-pound trading business.
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The Formula for Success
- How to Win at Life Using Your Own Personal Algorithm
- Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
- Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 22-10-2019
- Language: English
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