The Empire of Chance
Gerd (Universitat Konstanz, Germany) Gigerenzer, John (University of Minnesota) Beatty, Lorenz (Georg-August-Universitat, Gottingen, Germany) Kruger, Lorraine (Brandeis University, Massachusetts) Daston, Theodore (University of Virginia) Porter, Zeno (State University of New York, Buffalo) Swijtink
Cambridge University Press, 1990
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The Empire of Chance tells how quantitative ideas of chance transformed the natural and social sciences, as well as daily life, in the last three centuries. It connects the earliest applications of probability and statistics in gambling and insurance to the most recent forays into law, medicine polling and baseball.
- ISBN-13
- 9780521398381
- ISBN-10
- 052139838X
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 1990
- Publication date
- 1990-10-26
- Pages
- 360
- Dimensions
- 229x155x24
- Weight
- 542