Escape from Model Land
Book description
Shortlisted for Best Maths Book of 2022 by Chaulkdust Magazine
'A brilliant account of how models are so often abused and of how they should be used' John Kay
How do mathematical models shape our world - and how can we harness their power for good?
Models are at the…
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We increasingly live in a virtual world of models – pandemic models, climate change models, economic models. These have taken on what seems like a greater reality than the world of people and places we know and what used to be called common sense.
At one level everyone feels this. Modeling is Thompson’s job. This leaves her ideally placed to grapple with the question of just how real these models are and what weight we should put on these alternate realities and what weight on a reality we grew up in, which feels like its disappearing.
Thompson tackles these complex…
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