TY  - BOOK
AU  - Daston Lorraine
AU  - Gigerenzer Gerd
AU  - Porter Theodore
AU  - Swijtink Zeno
TI  - The Empire of Chance / How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life
SN  - 521331153
PY  - 1989///
PB  - Cambridge University Press
N2  - This book tells how quantitative ideas of chance transformed the natural and social sciences, as well as daily life, over the past three centuries.  Acknowledgements, Introduction, Classical Probabilities 1660-1840, Statistical Probabilities 1820-1900, The Inference Experts, Chance and Life: Controversies in Modern Biology, The Probabilistic Revolution in Physics, Statistics of the Mind, Numbers Rule the World, The Implications of Chance, References, Name and Subject Index
ER  -