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Gigerenzer, Gerd

 
9780521398381: The Empire of Chance: How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life
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ISBN 10: 052139838X ISBN 13: 9780521398381
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1990

Sinossi

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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Recensione

'The book provides a welcome introduction to the main historical themes of probability, statistics and inference. It is, at the same time, impressive in its range and subject-matter and in its depth of analysis.' The Times Higher Education Supplement

Descrizione del libro

The Empire of Chance tells how quantitative ideas of chance transformed the natural and social sciences, as well as daily life, in the last three centuries. It connects the earliest applications of probability and statistics in gambling and insurance to the most recent forays into law, medicine polling and baseball.

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Editore
Cambridge University Press
Data di pubblicazione
1990
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
052139838X
ISBN 13 
9780521398381
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
360
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
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9780521331159: The Empire of Chance: How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0521331153 ISBN 13:  9780521331159
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1989
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