Robin Hood Math
Take Control of the Algorithms That Run Your Life
Published on 5. August 2025
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-593-71787-5 (ISBN)
Description
"Award-winning mathematician Noah Giansiracusa explains how the rich and powerful use formulas to get ahead-and how the rest of us can use these same formulas in our everyday lives to make better decisions, act in our own best interests, and thrive"--
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Penguin Putnam Inc
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 212 mm
Width: 141 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
338 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-593-71787-5 (9780593717875)
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08/2025
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Person
Noah Giansiracusa is an associate professor of mathematics at Bentley University, a visiting scholar at Harvard University, and the author of How Algorithms Create and Prevent Fake News. His writing has appeared in Scientific American, Time, Wired, Slate, and The Washington Post, among others, and he has been featured as a guest on CNN, BBC Radio 4, and Newsmax. Giansiracusa lives in Acton, Massachusetts, with his wife, two kids, two dogs, and twelve chickens.