Gerd Gigerenzer (Germany Universitat Konstanz), Zeno Swijtink (Buffalo State University of New York), Theodore Porter (University of Virginia)

Empire of Chance

How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life

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Produktbeschreibung

The Empire of Chance tells how quantitative ideas of chance transformed the natural and social sciences, as well as daily life, in the last three centuries. It connects the earliest applications of probability and statistics in gambling and insurance to the most recent forays into law, medicine polling and baseball.

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Produktdetails

• Ideas in Context
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 1990
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 542g
• ISBN-13: 9780521398381
• ISBN-10: 052139838X
• Artikelnr.: 21242747

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Classical probabilities, 1660-1840
2. Statistical probabilities, 1820-1900
3. The inference experts
4. Chance and life: controversies in modern biology
5. The probabilistic revolution in physics
6. Statistics of the mind
7. Numbers rule the world
8. The implications of chance
References
Name index
Subject index.