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title: "The Doomsday Calculation: How an Equation that Predicts the Future Is Transforming Everything We Know About Life and the Universe"
brand: "william poundstone"
price: "E£ 2490"
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reviews_count: 9
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# The Doomsday Calculation: How an Equation that Predicts the Future Is Transforming Everything We Know About Life and the Universe

**Brand:** william poundstone
**Price:** E£ 2490
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- **What is this?** The Doomsday Calculation: How an Equation that Predicts the Future Is Transforming Everything We Know About Life and the Universe by william poundstone
- **How much does it cost?** E£ 2490 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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## Customer Reviews

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    From Gott to Fermi - Excellent Read
  

*by S***T on Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2019*

As a fan of ‘Fortune’s Formula’ I was excited to his latest book - particularly knowing that it would discuss the Fermi paradox and Gott’s Copernicus model.  Poundstone does a great job summarizing the various strong opinions and rationales among the physics community. Poundstone’s detailed writing style and exposition of the scientific context makes Gott’s proposed solution to the Fermi paradox more credible (to me) than the typical ones I’ve read.  THe sections on fine tuning and observers was excellent as well.  Overall, very good book and worth the wait.  I will be re-reading sections of this many times to come in the future.

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    Interesting Premise but Doesn't Deliver Fully
  

*by J***N on Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2019*

This book has an interesting premise: based upon Bayes theorem, we can estimate the number of years that mankind will exist.  He comes up with the number of 760 but really doesn't show how he got there (maybe the math is too complex, or the logic is too complex, but if it is, he should have put it in an appendix).  He goes through some examples of application of Bayes Theorem.  I especially like the one with the two tubs.  But, he doesn't follow-up.  Instead, we get lost in the usual physics mumbo jumbo about multi-universes, and how artificial intelligence is going make mankind extinct, etc.  There probably is a rationale, but he doesn't really show it.  Such a disappointment.

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    A masterpiece for people looking for a new way of thinking
  

*by D***N on Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2019*

This book looks doomsday dead in the eyes and proposes to send math to figure it out. I will confess that I had never heard of the Copernican Delta-T method when I first read the book, but now I think about these kinds of Fermi problems everywhere. This book, an excellent companion to Superforecasting presents an epic and interesting mathematical tale. It's everything one should expect from William Poundstone.

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