Proof (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Adam Kucharski | knygos.lt

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How do we establish what we believe? For thousands of years, from the ancient Greeks to the Arabic golden age to the modern world, science has used different methods-logical, empirical, intuitive, and more-to separate fact from fiction. But it all had the same goal: find perfect evidence and be rewarded with universal truth.¿ ¿ 

As mathematician Adam Kucharski shows, however, there is far more to proof than axioms, theories, and laws. Whether demonstrating that a new medical treatment works or persuading a jury of someone's guilt, the weighing up of evidence is far from simple. To discover proof, we must reach into a thicket of errors and biases and embrace uncertainty-and never more so than when existing methods fail. ¿ 

Spanning mathematics, science, politics, philosophy, and economics, Proof offers the ultimate exploration of how we can find our way to the truth.