In the 18th century, the British minister and mathematician Thomas Bayes devised a theorem that allowed him to assign probabilities to events that had never happened before. Incredibly, this theorem can also be used to lay odds on the...

How to Predict Everything von Poundstone, William

Microsoft's interview process is a notoriously grueling sequence of questions that separate creative thinkers from the merely brilliant. This book reveals for the first time more than 35 of Microsoft's puzzles and riddles, and supplies...

The first expose of the multimillion dollar industry of price consultants, packed with fascinating psychological studies about our irrationality when it comes to interpreting price. It explains the secrets behind the pricing of...

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 ranked with Einstein's. The other was John L. Kelly Jr., a...