The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World

From the No. 1 bestselling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys , the surprising and profound story of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky- the two men whose ideas changed the world ‘There are geniuses who work on their own. Together, we are exceptional.’ Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky met in war-torn 1960s Israel. Both were gifted young psychology professors- Kahneman a rootless son of holocaust survivors who saw the world as a problem to be solved; Tversky a voluble, instinctive blur of energy. In this breathtaking new book, Michael Lewis tells the story of how their unlikely friendship became one of the greatest partnerships in science – until, tragically, it started to unravel. Their ideas, shows Lewis, helped shape our world – revolutionising everything from Big Data to medicine, money to sport – and changed humankind’s view of its own mind. —- ISBN: 9780141983042 | ISBN10: 0141983043 | ISBN-13: 978-0141983042