Ten Great Ideas about Chance
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, gamblers and mathematicians transformed the idea of chance from a mystery into the discipline of probability, setting the stage for a series of breakthroughs that enabled or transformed innumerable fields, from gambling, mathematics, statistics, economics, and finance to physics and computer science. This book tells the story of ten great ideas about chance and the thinkers who developed them, tracing the philosophical implications of these ideas as well as their mathematical impact. Persi Diaconis and Brian Skyrms begin with Gerolamo Cardano, a sixteenth-century physician, mathematician, and profes…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Skyrms, Brian
- ISBN: 978-0-691-19639-8
- EAN: 9780691196398
- Produktnummer: 30340622
- Verlag: University Presses
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Masse: H20.4 cm x B13.4 cm x D1.8 cm 234 g
- Abbildungen: 44 b/w illus. 8 tables.
- Gewicht: 234
Über den Autor
Persi Diaconis is the Mary V. Sunseri Professor of Statistics and Mathematics at Stanford University and the coauthor of Magical Mathematics: The Mathematical Ideas That Animate Great Magic Tricks (Princeton). Brian Skyrms is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Logic and Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine, and Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University. His books include Signals: Evolution, Learning, and Information.
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