Ideas in Context The Empire of Chance: How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life

Type

Book

Authors

Gigerenzer ( Gigerenzer, Gerd )

Swijtink ( Swijtink, Zeno )

Porter ( Porter, Theodore )

Daston ( Daston, Lorraine )

Beatty ( Beatty, John )

Kruger ( Kruger, Lorenz )

ISBN 10

0521331153

ISBN 13

9780521331159

Tags

Mathematics, History & Theory, Political History

Series Name

Ideas in Context

Description

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 gambling and insurance to the most recent forays into law, medicine, polling, and baseball. Separate chapters explore the theoretical and methodological impact on biology, physics, and psychology. In contrast to the literature on the mathematical development of probability and statistics, this book centers on how these technical innovations recreated our conceptions of nature, mind, and society. - from Amzon

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