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Ideas in Context: Series Number 12: The Empire of Chance: How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life
Gerd Gigerenzer
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Description for Ideas in Context: Series Number 12: The Empire of Chance: How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life
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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 on the mathematical development of probability and ... Read more
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 on the mathematical development of probability and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
360
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521398381
SKU
V9780521398381
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Reviews for Ideas in Context: Series Number 12: The Empire of Chance: How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life
'The book provides a welcome introduction to the main historical themes of probability, statistics and inference. It is, at the same time, impressive in its range and subject-matter and in its depth of analysis.' The Times Higher Education Supplement ...will be useful to statisticians, philosophers, scientists and other historians of science who want to understand the roots of the ... Read more