Searching for Certainty : What Science Can Know about the Future

Casti, John L.

ISBN 10: 0349104557 / ISBN 13: 9780349104553

Editore: Little, Brown Book Group Limited, 1993

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Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

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• Titolo: Searching for Certainty : What Science Can Know about the Future
• Editore: Little, Brown Book Group Limited
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0349104557
• ISBN 13: 9780349104553
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: Good

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Riassunto

This comprehensive overview of the prediction game takes readers on a journey through the worlds of probability, chance and chaos, and investigates developmental biology, modern warfare, weather and climate prediction, mathematics, economics and games of chance. The author of "Paradigms Lost" asks a variety of intriguing questions. Does any method exist to foresee stock-market trends? Can warfare be predicted and avoided? Why can't we get a foolproof forecast for the weekend weather on Tuesday? Are such concepts as nuclear winter and the greenhouse effect real threats to humanity? And is mathematics, the queen of sciences, really as infallible as it's cracked up to be?

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.