Searching For Certainty: What Science Can Know About the Future

John L. Casti

ISBN 10: 0356203689 / ISBN 13: 9780356203683

Editore: Scribners, London, 1992

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• Titolo: Searching For Certainty: What Science Can Know About the Future
• Editore: Scribners, London
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0356203689
• ISBN 13: 9780356203683
• Rilegatura: Soft cover
• Condizione: Near Fine
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Science

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Riassunto

An investigative book which questions why some systems for defining the shape of things to come work better than others. The author examines the worlds of probability, chance and chaos and also investigates developmental biology, modern warfare, weather prediction, mathematics and games of chance.

Informazioni sull?autore

John L. Casti is a member of the faculty of the Santa Fe Institute and a professor at the Technical University of Vienna. He divides his time between Santa Fe, New Mexico and Vienna.