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Ten great ideas about chance /

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, gamblers and mathematicians transformed the idea of chance from a mystery into the discipline of probability, setting the stage for a series of breakthroughs that enabled or transformed innumerable fields, from gambling, mathematics, statistics, economics,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Diaconis, Persi (Autor), Skyrms, Brian (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2018]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Measurement
  • 2. Judgment
  • 3. Psychology
  • 4. Frequency
  • 5. Mathematics
  • 6. Inverse Inference
  • 7. Unification
  • 8. Algorithmic randomness
  • 9. Physical chance
  • 10. Induction
  • Appendix: Probability tutorial.