Chances Are . . .: Adventures in Probability

Kaplan, Michael, Kaplan, Ellen

ISBN 10: 0670034878 / ISBN 13: 9780670034871

Edité par Viking Adult, 2006

Good condition. Good dust jacket. With remainder mark. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. N° de réf. du vendeur D06F-02478

Synopsis :

Book by Kaplan Michael Kaplan Ellen

Présentation de l'éditeur: A compelling journey through history, mathematics, and philosophy, charting humanity’s struggle against randomness

Our lives are played out in the arena of chance. However little we recognize it in our day-to-day existence, we are always riding the odds, seeking out certainty but settling—reluctantly—for likelihood, building our beliefs on the shadowy props of probability. Chances Are is the story of man’s millennia-long search for the tools to manage the recurrent but unpredictable—to help us prevent, or at least mitigate, the seemingly random blows of disaster, disease, and injustice. In these pages, we meet the brilliant individuals who developed the first abstract formulations of probability, as well as the intrepid visionaries who recognized their practical applications—from gamblers to military strategists to meteorologists to medical researchers, from blackjack to our own mortality.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Chances Are . . .: Adventures in Probability
Éditeur : Viking Adult
Date d'édition : 2006
Reliure : Couverture rigide
Etat : Good
Etat de la jaquette : Jaquette