Empire of Chance
How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life
The Empire of Chance tells how quantitative ideas of chance transformed the natural and social sciences, as well as daily life over the last three centuries. A continuous narrative connects the earliest application of probability and statistics in gambling and insurance to the most recent forays into law, medicine, polling and baseball. Separate chapters explore the theoretical and methodological impact in biology, physics and psychology. Themes recur - determinism, inference, causality, free will, evidence, the shifting meaning of probability - but in dramatically different disciplinary and historical contexts. In contrast to the literature…
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- ISBN: 978-1-107-29888-0
- EAN: 9781107298880
- Produktnummer: 16979073
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1990
- Seitenangabe: 0 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 38'904 KB
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