Kit Yates | How to Expect the Unexpected | Talks at Google
82Author and mathematician Kit Yates discusses his recent book How to Expect the Unexpected: The Science of Making Predictions―and the Art of Knowing When Not To, a guide to understanding the surprising science that undergirds our predictions—and how we can use it to our advantage.
Get the book here: https://goo.gle/46xrza1.
For more information on Kit, please visit https://kityates.com/.
Kit Yates is a senior lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Sciences and co-director of the Centre for Mathematical Biology at the University of Bath. He completed his PhD in mathematics at the University of Oxford.
Author of The Maths of Life and Death, a Sunday Times Science Book of the Year, and now How to Expect the Unexpected, he has been praised for the accessible and clear way he writes about the influence of math in our everyday lives.
Kit is one of the core scientists that forms Independent SAGE, providing independent scientific advice to policy makers and the public on covid throughout the pandemic. He is a prominent commentator on the role of mathematics in society writing regularly for the Guardian and the independent and a range of other media outlets. He regularly appears on radio shows like the BBC’s More or Less, and Inside Science as well as on TV news shows and documentaries.
Moderated by Duncan Manhattan.