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Adam Kucharski is a professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. A mathematician by training, his work on global outbreaks has included Ebola, Zika and COVID-19, and he has produced real-time analysis for multiple governments and health agencies. He is a TED senior fellow and winner of the 2016 Rosalind Franklin Award Lecture and the 2012 Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize. The bestselling author of The Rules of Contagion, his writing has appeared in the Observer, Financial Times, Wired and New Statesman.Adam Kucharski explains how certainty, even in math, can be an illusion
- Jennifer Szalai, New York Times
A profound and utterly absorbing exploration of the limits and power of proof and truth. Kucharski elegantly explores how proof is not just a mathematical concept but a vital tool in decision-making, justice, and survival
- Chris van Tulleken,
Adam Kucharski has a knack of making complex problems sound simple - and exciting. A book that made me smile and feel clever
- Peter Frankopan,
Excellent...Proof is a great guide to embracing this complexity in truth-seeking
New Scientist
Illuminating ... This is a serious book by a serious person. It's full of gnarly theorems and concepts. But it's also a virtuosic look at the varied and sometimes amusing ways human beings have over the centuries used their intelligence to make sense of the world
- Leaf Arbuthnot, Daily Mail
The case for better evidence in post-evidence times...a slice of the history of mathematics demonstrating that even logic can't deliver absolute truth
- Diane Coyle, Financial Times
Shows how proof is more elusive than we realise, whether in law, science, policy or math
Bloomberg
In his brilliant new book Proof, Adam tells the story of how nineteenth century thinkers began to challenge Euclid's self evident truths - and how this shaped the history of mathematics. It's a great read that covers many fields, including history, politics, statistics, computer science and epidemiology
- Alex Bellos,
In an increasingly complex world, where we're beset by information, misinformation, and endlessly required to make decisions about it all, Kucharski shines a brilliant and clarifying light through the muddle. Proof is a puzzle-solver's delight; the essential guide we need to make sense of what and who to trust, and the risks therein
- Gaia Vince,
A vivid, intelligent and wide-ranging book about how we know what we know. Adam Kucharski is a brilliant and entertaining guide
- Tim Harford,
Kucharski explains why getting at the truth of just about anything is incredibly hard. There's fascinating technical detail here, and a moral: the more we appreciate how hard proof is to come by, the better we can bridge the widening gulf between experts and sceptics
- Simon Ings, New Scientist
Praise for The Rules of Contagion:
'An eye-opening read, a worthwhile book
Sunday Times
A clear, calm, historical overview of the mathematical ideas at the forefront of our pandemic response, where they came from and how well they stand up when you put them to the test.
- Hannah Fry, Guardian
Charts the history of this now-pivotal science, from its origins in understanding the spread of malaria, to its central role in predicting the dissemination of everything from diseases to fake news.
Economist
Astonishingly bold...Kucharski has pulled off the extraordinary trick of shining the brightest light on this unseen, menacing, but ultimately beatable, enemy.
Daily Mail