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The Doomsday Calculation: How an Equation that Predicts the Future Is Transforming Everything We Know About Life and the Universe

byWilliam Poundstone

William Poundstone uses The Doomsday Calculation to investigate how an Equation that Predicts the Future Is Transforming Everything We Know About Life and the Universe through a carefully framed science narrative. By tracing causes alongside consequences, the narrative gives readers both a grounded account and a route into the connected fields of mathematics and science. The result avoids a single easy lesson, emphasizing instead how circumstances, institutions, and individual choices interacted over time. The book ultimately clarifies what made these developments possible, who experienced their effects, and why the story remains significant.

Publisher

Little Brown & Company

Publication date

2020

Format

Print edition

Pages

320

ISBN

9780316440691