Alea jacta est

I'm delighted to say that my latest book, Dice World is now available for sale. Subtitled 'science and life in a random universe', it's about randomness (well, duh), probability and statistics. It explores how the ‘clockwork universe’ imagined by Newton, in which everything could be predicted given enough data, was disproved bit by bit, to be supplanted by chaos theory and quantum physics. This is a world in which not only is accurate forecasting often impossible but probability is the only way for us to understand the fundamental nature of things.

Where else do you get a chance to meet Maxwell's Demon, Schödinger's cat and take part in an experiment using Bayesian statistics to see how a mug on my desk alters the probability of my owning a golden retriever (no, really)?

I've really enjoyed writing this book, and I hope it will be of wide interest.

As a launch special, anyone who buys a copy from Amazon.co.uk today 4 April can be entered into a draw to win one of three free copies of any one of the following:
Inflight ScienceThe Universe Inside You GravityHow to Build a Time MachineArmageddon ScienceBefore the Big Bang... just drop me an email at brian@brianclegg.net telling me if you bought the paper or Kindle version (no need for proof of purchase, though I'll need to see it if you win).
And whether or not you bother to email me, if you do intend to buy a copy, please try to do it today, so we give the Amazon ranking a good push!
You can see the paper version here at Amazon.co.uk and the Kindle version here at Amazon.co.uk. The paper version is expected any moment on Amazon.com here (there are already some Marketplace sellers), but the Kindle version is already there on Amazon.com.
Ooh, er, I'm all excited!

Forget the clockwork universe. Welcome to Dice World!