Chances Are . . .: Adventures in Probability
by Kaplan, Michael,Kaplan, Ellen
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A compelling journey through history, mathematics, and philosophy, charting humanitys 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 settlingreluctantlyfor likelihood, building our beliefs on the shadowy props of probability. Chances Are is the story of mans millennia-long search for the tools to manage the recurrent but unpredictableto 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 applicationsfrom gamblers to military strategists to meteorologists to medical researchers, from blackjack to our own mortality.
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- Title
- Chances Are . . .: Adventures in Probability
- Author
- Kaplan, Michael,Kaplan, Ellen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
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- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0670034878
- ISBN 13
- 9780670034871
- Publisher
- Viking Adult
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 3/23/2006 12:00:01 A
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- 1.2992 in x 9.2992 in x 6.2008 i
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