This book is all about the equations that make our world go round. Ten of them, in fact. They are integral to everything from investment banking to betting companies and social media giants. And they can help you to increase your chance of success, guard against financial loss, live more healthfully, and see through scaremongering. They are known by only the privileged few - un...(展开全部)

The empowering story of Larry Hite’s unlikely rise to the top of the hedge fund world―with critical insights and lessons you can take to the bank In The Rule, legendary trader and hedge fund pioneer Larry Hite recounts his working-class upbringing in Brooklyn as a dyslexic, partially blind kid who was anything but a model student―and how he went on to found and run Mint Invest...(展开全部)

The empowering story of Larry Hite’s unlikely rise to the top of the hedge fund world―with critical insights and lessons you can take to the bank In The Rule, legendary trader and hedge fund pioneer Larry Hite recounts his working-class upbringing in Brooklyn as a dyslexic, partially blind kid who was anything but a model student―and how he went on to found and run Mint Invest...(展开全部)

[英] 伊恩•斯图尔特 / Ian Stewart 英国皇家学会会员，曾获英国皇家学会的“法拉第奖章”、美国科学促进会的“公众理解科学技术奖”和英国伦敦数学学会与英国数学及应用研究院颁发的“塞曼奖章”，英国沃里克大学数学系荣退教授。在专业研究之余，他也积极致力于向公众传播数学。著有多部优秀数学科普作品，如《谁在掷骰子？不确定的数学》《不可思议的数》《数学万花筒》系列等。本书荣获欧拉图书奖。

[英] 伊恩•斯图尔特 / Ian Stewart 英国皇家学会会员，曾获英国皇家学会的“法拉第奖章”、美国科学促进会的“公众理解科学技术奖”和英国伦敦数学学会与英国数学及应用研究院颁发的“塞曼奖章”，英国沃里克大学数学系荣退教授。在专业研究之余，他也积极致力于向公众传播数学。著有多部优秀数学科普作品，如《谁在掷骰子？不确定的数学》《不可思议的数》《数学万花筒》系列等。本书荣获欧拉图书奖。

An impassioned firsthand account of the Russian Revolution An American journalist and revolutionary writer, John Reed became a close friend of Lenin and was an eyewitness to the 1917 revolution in Russia. Ten Days That Shook the World is Reed's extraordinary record of that event. Writing in the first flush of revolutionary enthusiasm, he gives a gripping account of the ev...(展开全部)

洛伦佐·费尔拉蒙蒂，南非比勒陀利亚大学副教授，在区域一体化和治理研究领域获得欧盟“让·莫内讲座教授”荣誉称号，治理创新研究中心主管。他还是德国海德堡大学社会投资中心和柏林赫尔梯行政学院的高级研究员、联合国大学副研究员。费尔拉蒙蒂著有多部有关发展政策、全球和区域治理、替代性经济和社会进步指标的书籍，包括《GDP究竟是个什么玩意儿：GDP的历史及其背后的政治利益》（Zed Books，2013年）。

Numbers dominate global politics and as a result our everyday lives. Credit ratings steer financial markets and can make or break the future of entire nations. GDP drives our economies. Stock market indices flood our media and national debates. Statistical calculations define how we deal with climate change, poverty and sustainability. But what is behind these numbers? By what ...(展开全部)

洛伦佐·费尔拉蒙蒂，南非比勒陀利亚大学副教授，在区域一体化和治理研究领域获得欧盟“让·莫内讲座教授”荣誉称号，治理创新研究中心主管。他还是德国海德堡大学社会投资中心和柏林赫尔梯行政学院的高级研究员、联合国大学副研究员。费尔拉蒙蒂著有多部有关发展政策、全球和区域治理、替代性经济和社会进步指标的书籍，包括《GDP究竟是个什么玩意儿：GDP的历史及其背后的政治利益》（Zed Books，2013年）。

Numbers dominate global politics and as a result our everyday lives. Credit ratings steer financial markets and can make or break the future of entire nations. GDP drives our economies. Stock market indices flood our media and national debates. Statistical calculations define how we deal with climate change, poverty and sustainability. But what is behind these numbers? By what ...(展开全部)