Ten great ideas about chance /
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, gamblers and mathematicians transformed the idea of chance from a mystery into the discipline of probability, setting the stage for a series of breakthroughs that enabled or transformed innumerable fields, from gambling, mathematics, statistics, economics,...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2018]
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Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Measurement
- 2. Judgment
- 3. Psychology
- 4. Frequency
- 5. Mathematics
- 6. Inverse Inference
- 7. Unification
- 8. Algorithmic Randomness
- 9. Physical Chance
- 10. Induction.