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Devid Sampter, professor prikladnoy matematiki v Universitete Uppsaly, avtor neskolkih nauchno-populyarnyh bestsellerov, predlagaet chitatelyam osmyslit okruzhayuschiy mir, pribegnuv k chetyrem razlichnym sposobam myshleniya — statisticheskomu, interaktivnomu, haoticheskomu i slozhnomu. Obyasnyaya sut etih sposobov, raznitsu mezhdu nimi i tu polzu, kotoruyu mozhet izvlech iz nih lyuboy zhelayuschiy, Sampter opiraetsya na issledovaniya R. Fishera (vvel ponyatie maksimalnogo pravdopodobiya), K. Shennona (opisal matematicheskuyu teoriyu informatsii) i A. Kolmogorova (pioner teorii haosa, zvezda sovetskoy matematiki). Avtor zhivo i ubeditelno rasskazyvaet o tom, kak mozhno cherez tsifry proniknut v tayny chelovecheskogo suschestvovaniya, no pri etom prizyvaet pomnit, chto vse my nevyrazimo slozhny i sposobny vsegda otkryvat chto‑to novoe i v okruzhayuschih, i v sebe samih.