# Everything Is Predictable

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- Book: [Everything Is Predictable](https://www.bookquiver.com/tom-chivers/everything-is-predictable) ([Everything Is Predictable.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/tom-chivers/everything-is-predictable.md))
- Authors: [Tom Chivers](https://www.bookquiver.com/tom-chivers)
- Publisher: w_n
- ISBN: 978-13-9960-405-5
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2025-04-24
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY TRIVEDI SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2024 'Fascinating, witty and perspective-shifting . . . I finished it not only better informed about a captivating branch of mathematics, but with an invigorating sense of greater purchase on the world' OLIVER BURKEMAN Thomas Bayes was an eighteenth-century Presbyterian minister and amateur mathematician whose obscure life belied the profound impact of his work. Fusing biography, razor-sharp science communication and intellectual history, Everything Is Predictable is a captivating tour of Bayes' theorem and its impact on modern life. From medical testing to artificial intelligence, Tom Chivers shows how a single compelling idea can have far-reaching consequences.