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Prisoner's Dilemma
"Both a fascinating biography of von Neumann, the Hungarian exile whose mathematical theories were building blocks for the A-bomb and the digital computer, and …
Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street
In 1956 two Bell Labs scientists discovered the scientific formula for getting rich. One was mathematician Claude Shannon, neurotic father of our digital age, whose genius is …
How Would You Move Mount Fuji?
Microsoft's interview process is a notoriously gruelling sequence of brain-busting questions that separate the most creative thinkers from the merely brilliant. So effective is …
Head in the Cloud
Never before have we had so much information at our fingertips. You might think that we are better-informed than ever, but there’s one thing we can’t ask Google: ‘What should I be …
How to Predict the Unpredictable
From paper-scissors-stone to the stock market, the economics and psychology that will help you play to win
Rock Breaks Scissors: A Practical Guide to Outguessing and Outwitting Almost Everybody
A practical guide to outguessing everything, from multiple-choice tests to the office football pool to the stock market. People are predictable even when they try not to be. …
Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?: Trick Questions, Zen-Like Riddles, Insanely Difficult Puzzles, and Other Devious Interviewing Techniques You
You are shrunk to the height of a nickel and thrown in a blender. The blades start moving in 60 seconds. What do you do? If you want to work at Google, or any of America's best …
Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?
Gaming the Vote: Why Elections Aren't Fair (and What We Can Do about It)
At least five U.S. presidential elections have been won by the second most popular candidate, but these results were not inevitable. In fact, such an unfair outcome need never …
Head in the Cloud
What’s the point of knowing anything when facts are so easy to look up? Just reach for your computer, tablet or mobile and ask the sky. We’re living in the golden age of rational …
How to Predict the Unpredictable
We are hard-wired to believe that the world is more predictable than it is. We chase ';winning streaks' that are often just illusions, and we are all too predictable exactly when …
How to Predict Everything
How do you predict something that has never happened before? There's a useful calculation being employed by Wall Street, Silicon Valley and maths professors all over the world, and …