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Do dice play God? : the mathematics of uncertainty

text Do dice play God? : the mathematics of uncertainty

Summary
Bestselling author Professor Ian Stewart explores the history and mathematics of uncertainty. Touching on gambling, probability, statistics, financial and weather forecasts, censuses, medical studies, chaos, quantum physics, and climate, he makes ... Read more
Contents
Six ages of uncertainty -- Reading the entrails -- Roll of the dice -- Toss of a coin -- Too much information -- Fallacies and paradoxes -- Social physics -- How certain are you? -- Law and disorder -- Unpredicting the predictable -- The weather f... Read more
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292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher
Basic Books 2019

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 519.2 STE in Adult Non-fiction Available

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