How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life
by
Gerd Gigerenzer, Zeno Swijtink, Theodore Porter
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 1990
The Empire of Chance tells how quantitative ideas of chance transformed the natural and social sciences, as well as daily life over the last three centuries. A continuous narrative connects the earliest application of probability and statistics in gambling and insurance to the most recent forays into...