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The Empire of chance : how probability changed science and everyday life /
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 int...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , , , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge [England] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1989.
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| Colección: | Ideas in context.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 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 philosophers, this readable, lucid account keeps technical material to an absolute minimum. It is aimed not only at specialists in the history and philosophy of science, but also at the general reader and scholars in other disciplines. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 340 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-326) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781461949060 1461949068 9780511720482 0511720483 9781107387225 1107387221 1107384729 9781107384729 1107383617 9781107383616 1107394848 9781107394841 1306148243 9781306148245 1107390052 9781107390058 1107398479 9781107398474 |