The empire of chance: how probability changed science and everyday life Gigerenzer, Gerd

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Gigerenzer, Gerd

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Series: Ideas in contextPublication details: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1989Description: xvii, 340 pISBN:

9780521398381

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DDC classification:

121.63 G4E6

Summary: This book tells how quantitative ideas of chance have transformed the natural and social sciences as well as everyday life over the past three centuries. A continuous narrative connects the earliest application of probability and statistics in gambling and insurance to the most recent forays into law, medicine, polling, and baseball. Separate chapters explore the theoretical and methodological impact on biology, physics, and psychology. In contrast to the literature on the mathematical development of probability and statistics, this book centers on how these technical innovations recreated our conceptions of nature, mind, and society. (http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/history-ideas-and-intellectual-history/empire-chance-how-probability-changed-science-and-everyday-life?format=PB)

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	Ahmedabad	Non-fiction	121.63 G4E6 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		190462
Book	Jammu		519.2 GIG (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		IIMLJ-3064

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Table of contents:

1. Classical probabilities, 1660–1840
2. Statistical probabilities, 1820–1900
3. The inference experts
4. Chance and life: controversies in modern biology
5. The probabilistic revolution in physics
6. Statistics of the mind
7. Numbers rule the world
8. The implications of chance

This book tells how quantitative ideas of chance have transformed the natural and social sciences as well as everyday life over the past three centuries. A continuous narrative connects the earliest application of probability and statistics in gambling and insurance to the most recent forays into law, medicine, polling, and baseball. Separate chapters explore the theoretical and methodological impact on biology, physics, and psychology. In contrast to the literature on the mathematical development of probability and statistics, this book centers on how these technical innovations recreated our conceptions of nature, mind, and society.

(http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/history-ideas-and-intellectual-history/empire-chance-how-probability-changed-science-and-everyday-life?format=PB)

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