The Empire Of Chance: How Probability Changed Science And Everyday Life

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.

• | By (Author): Gerd (Universitat Konstanz, Germany) Gigerenzer
• | Series: Ideas in Context
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 26, 1990
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 360 pages
• | Language: Not available
• | Binding: Paperback|Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0007233485
• | ISBN-13: 9780521398381