Empire of Chance - How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life

Klappentext This book tells how quantitative ideas of chance transformed the natural and social sciences! as well as daily life! over the past three centuries Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

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• Authors: Lorraine Daston, Gerd Gigerenzer, Gerd Swijtink Gigerenzer, Theodore Porter, Theodore (University of Virginia) Porter, Zeno Swijtink, Zeno (State University of New York Swijtink
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.10.1990
• EAN: 9780521398381
• ISBN: 978-0-521-39838-1
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 230 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Ideas in Context; Print On Demand
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Probability theory, stochastic theory, mathematical statistics