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Ten great ideas about chance / Persi Diaconis , Brian Skyrms

By:

Diaconis, Persi

Contributor(s):

Skyrms, Brain

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2018Description: 255 p. : illus.: 25 cmISBN:

9780691174167

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DDC classification:

519.2 DIA

Summary: 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, and finance to physics and computer science. This book tells the story of ten great ideas about chance and the thinkers who developed them, tracing the philosophical implications of these ideas as well as their mathematical impact.

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Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	519.2 DIA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	Non fiction		041159

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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, and finance to physics and computer science. This book tells the story of ten great ideas about chance and the thinkers who developed them, tracing the philosophical implications of these ideas as well as their mathematical impact.

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