A fascinating exploration of how we can make better, accessible, mathematically-informed predictions about the world around us.

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 in 2011. He is the author of The Maths of Life and Death, which was a Sunday Times Science Book of the Year. This is his second book.