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Cambridge University Press, 1990. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Clean from markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN:9780521398381
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Empire of Chance: How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life Paperback - 1990
by Gerd Gigerenzer; Zeno Swijtink; Theodore Porter
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In July of 1654 Blaise Pascal wrote to Pierre Fermat about a gambling problem which came to be known as the Problem of Points: Two players are interrupted in the midst of a game of chance, with the score uneven at that point.
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This book tells how quantitative ideas of chance transformed the natural and social sciences, as well as daily life, over the past three centuries
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- Title Empire of Chance: How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life
- Author Gerd Gigerenzer; Zeno Swijtink; Theodore Porter
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 360
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
- Date 1990-10-26
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780521398381 / 052139838X
- Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 1.1 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 2.79 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 88016928
- Dewey Decimal Code 519
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Reprint ed.. Paperback octavo, very good plus condition. 340 pp. Gerd Gigerenzer and colleagues describe how quantitative ideas of chance transformed the natural and social sciences, as well as daily life over the last 300 years. 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. Recurring themes include determinism, inference, causality, free will, evidence, and the shifting meaning of probability - but in dramatically different disciplinary and historical contexts. In contrast to the literature on the mathematical development of probability and statistics, this book centres on how these technical innovations remade our conceptions of nature, mind and society. Written by an interdisciplinary team of historians and…
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