Chances Are . . .: Adventures in Probability

Chances Are . . .: Adventures in Probability

A compelling journey through history, mathematics, and philosophy, charting humanityâ€™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 settlingâ€”reluctantlyâ€”for likelihood, building our beliefs on the shadowy props of probability. Chances Are is the story of manâ€™s millennia-long search for the tools to manage the recurrent but unpredictableâ€”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 applicationsâ€”from gamblers to military strategists to meteorologists to medical researchers, from blackjack to our own mortality.
Country USA
Manufacturer Penguin Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2007-02-27
Format Kindle eBook

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