The Empire of Chance / How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life

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TextPublication details: Cambridge University Press, 1989Edition: 1stDescription: 342ISBN:

521331153

Summary: 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.

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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. 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.

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The Empire of Chance / How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life