Understanding the unseen
Adam KucharskiMaking sense of a noisy, uncertain world with the author of 'The Rules of Contagion' and 'Proof'
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Mathematician/epidemiologist, co-founder of Wholesum, author of Proof: The Uncertain Science of Certainty. Bylines in Wired, FT, Guardian, Times, New Scientist.
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