Chances Are . . .: Adventures in Probability

Michael Kaplan,Ellen Kaplan

Chances Are . . .: Adventures in Probability
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Putnam Inc
Country
United States
Published
27 February 2007
Pages
336
ISBN
9780143038344

Chances Are …: Adventures in Probability

Michael Kaplan,Ellen Kaplan

A compelling journey through history, mathematics, and philosophy, charting humanity’s struggle against randomness Our lives are played out in the arena of chance. However little we recognize it in our day-to-day existence, we are always riding the odds, seeking out certainty but settling reluctantly for likelihood, building our beliefs on the shadowy props of probability. Chances Are is the story of man’s millennia-long search for the tools to manage the recurrent but unpredictable to help us prevent, or at least mitigate, the seemingly random blows of disaster, disease, and injustice. In these pages, we meet the brilliant individuals who developed the first abstract formulations of probability, as well as the intrepid visionaries who recognized their practical applications from gamblers to military strategists to meteorologists to medical researchers, from blackjack to our own mortality.

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