THE MATHEMATICS OF US

Love, Probability, Time & the Beautiful Impossibility of Two People Finding Each Other

von Cecile Kramm

586 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

What are the chances that, among billions of people, two particular lives ever intersect at all?And once they do, can mathematics tell us what happens next?In THE MATHEMATICS OF US, Cecile Kramm takes an extraordinary journey through 100 mathematical ideas and 100 deeply human questions about love, connection, uncertainty, time, and choice.Probability asks: What were the chances of you?Geometry asks: How do two separate lives become close enough to matter?Calculus asks: When does something small become something life-changing?Statistics asks: How certain can we ever be about what another person feels?Game theory asks: What happens when love meets fear, trust, silence, and self-protection?Chaos theory asks: Why can the smallest moment alter the direction of an entire life?Optimization asks: What do we choose when every possible future has a cost?Infinity asks: Does love need to last forever in order to matter?And finally, mathematics reaches its boundary and confronts the one variable no equation can control: choice.From probability and geometry to Bayesian reasoning, game theory, chaos, entropy, infinity, Gödel's incompleteness theorems, and the Halting Problem, Kramm transforms genuine mathematical concepts into doors through which we can examine some of our most intimate human experiences.But this is not a mathematics textbook, and it does not pretend that love can be reduced to formulas.Instead, mathematics does something more interesting: It helps us ask better questions.Intelligent, romantic, philosophical, and unexpectedly moving, THE MATHEMATICS OF US is for anyone who has ever wondered why one person appeared among billions, why some connections change us, why certainty remains elusive-and whether something must last forever to have been real.100 equations.100 questions.One beautiful unsolved problem: us.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798175790338
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 20.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published