Empire of Chance: How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life Tapa blanda - 1990

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

Cambridge University Press. Used - Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

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… Leer más

Cambridge University Press. paperback. New. 6x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

Cambridge University Press, 1990-10-26. Reprint. paperback. Used: Good.

Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; 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

Paperback / softback. New. 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.

Cambridge University Press, 1990-10-26. Reprint. paperback. Used:Good.

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