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Randomness /
"This book is aimed at the trouble with trying to learn about probability. A story of the misconceptions and difficulties civilization overcame in progressing toward probabilistic thinking, Randomness is also a skillful account of what makes the science of probability so daunting in our own tim...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
1998.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Chance encounters
- 2. Why resort to chance?
- 3. When the gods played dice
- 4. Figuring the odds
- 5. Mind games for gamblers
- 6. Chance or necessity?
- 7. Order in apparent chaos
- 8. Wanted: random numbers
- 9. Randomness as uncertainty
- 10. Paradoxes in probability.