Empire of Chance: How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life by Gerd Gigerenzer, Theodore Porter, Zeno Swijtink

Empire of Chance: How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life

Ideas in Context

Gerd Gigerenzer, Theodore Porter, Zeno Swijtink

360 pages first pub 1989 (editions)

nonfiction history mathematics challenging informative medium-paced
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This book tells how quantitative ideas of chance have transformed the natural and social sciences as well as everyday life over the past three centuries. A continuous narrative connects the earliest application of probability and statistics in gam...

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