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

The Empire of Chance

How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life

1989 • 364 pages

Connects the earliest applications of probability and statistics in gambling and insurance to the most recent applications in law, medicine, polling, and baseball as well as their impact on biology, physics and psychology.

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Ideas in Context

Ideas in Context is a 21-book series with 21 released primary works first released in 1984 with contributions by J.G.A. Pocock, Laurence Dickey, and Peter Novick.


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