David Sumpter: 5 books

Book cover of Soccermatics

Soccermatics

Mathematical Adventures in the Beautiful Game

by David Sumpter
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016

'Football looked at in a very different way' Pat Nevin, former Chelsea and Everton star and football media analyst Football – the most mathematical of sports. From shot statistics and league tables to the geometry of passing and managerial strategy, the modern game is filled with numbers,...
Book cover of Outnumbered

Outnumbered

From Facebook and Google to Fake News and Filter-bubbles – The Algorithms That Control Our Lives

by David Sumpter
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018

'Fascinating' Financial Times Algorithms are running our society, and as the Cambridge Analytica story has revealed, we don't really know what they are up to. Our increasing reliance on technology and the internet has opened a window for mathematicians and data researchers to gaze through...
Book cover of Fútbol y Matemáticas

Fútbol y Matemáticas

Aventuras matemáticas del deporte rey

by David Sumpter
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 31, 2016

Fútbol es fútbol, se dice. Pero es mucho más, fútbol también es matemáticas, o al menos una manera apasionante de aprenderlas. Escuadra, parábola, triangulación. ¿De qué estamos hablando? La mayoría dirán que de fútbol. Pues bien, sí, pero también de matemáticas. Y es que como...
Book cover of Futbol y matemáticas (Edición mexicana)
by David Sumpter
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 18, 2016

Futbol es futbol, se dice. Pero es mucho más, futbol también es matemáticas, o al menos una manera apasionante de aprenderlas. Escuadra, parábola, triangulación. ¿De qué estamos hablando? La mayoría dirán que de futbol. Pues bien, sí, pero también de matemáticas. Y es que como demuestra...
Book cover of Collective Animal Behavior
by David J. T. Sumpter
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010

Fish travel in schools, birds migrate in flocks, honeybees swarm, and ants build trails. How and why do these collective behaviors occur? Exploring how coordinated group patterns emerge from individual interactions, Collective Animal Behavior reveals why animals produce group behaviors and examines...
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