This event marks the publication of John D Barrow’s latest book. 100 Essential Things You Didn’t Know You Didn’t Know answers one hundred essential questions of existence. From winning the lottery, placing bets at the races and escaping from bears to sports, Shakespeare, Google, game theory, drunks, divorce settlements and dodgy accounting; from chaos to infinity and everything in between.
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100 Essential Things You Didn’t Know You Didn’t Know
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100 Essential Things You Didn’t Know You Didn’t Know
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100 Essential Things You Didn’t Know You Didn’t Know
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100 Essential Things You Didn’t Know You Didn’t Know
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Sorting out Transport in London | Gresham College
London has some major disadvantages that would make any transport policy difficult. However, even given the constraints, the current policy mix is so far away from ideal that it could be costing each household about £1,000 more than it should if transport were to be organised rationally. The lecture will give some suggestions about what could be done.
http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/sorting-out-transport-in-london
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1,000 Years of Mathematics: Henry Briggs | Gresham College
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Deep Pasts and Deep Futures: What is the Immediate Relevance of the Long-Term to Finance?
Panel discussion with: Ian Morison, Gresham Professor of Astronomy Neal Stephenson, author ‘Anathem’ Bob McDowall, Financial Journalist Chaired by Faisal Islam, Channel 4 News