Stewart, I: Do Dice Play God? The Mathematics of Uncertainty
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
06.06.2019
Abbildungen
Charts, graphs and illustrations throughout
Verlag
Profile BooksSeitenzahl
304
Maße (L/B/H)
23.6/15.4/2.7 cm
Gewicht
466 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-78816-228-9
We began our quest to make certain an uncertain world by reading omens in livers, tea leaves, and the stars. However, over the centuries, driven by curiosity, competition, and a desire be better gamblers, pioneering mathematicians and scientists began to reduce wild uncertainties to tame distributions of probability and statistical inferences. But, even as unknown unknowns became known unknowns, our pessimism made us believe that some problems were unsolvable and our intuition misled us. Worse, as we realized how omnipresent and varied uncertainty is, we encountered chaos, quantum mechanics, and the limitations of our predictive power.
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 one thing clear: a reasonable probability is the only certainty.
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