Do Dice Play God?

ISBN: 9781781259443 Categorii: Diverse, Diverse. An apariție: 2020 Autor: Professor Ian Stewart Editură: Profile Books Ltd Ediție: Main Tip copertă: Paperback Număr pagini: 304 Stoc: Stoc limitat

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Uncertainty is everywhere. It lurks in every consideration of the future - the weather, the economy, the sex of an unborn child - even quantities we think that we know such as populations or the transit of the planets contain the possibility of error. It's no wonder that, throughout that history, we have attempted to produce rigidly defined areas of uncertainty - we prefer the surprise party to the surprise asteroid.

We began our quest to make certain an uncertain world by reading omens in livers, tea leaves, and the stars. However, over the centuries, driven by curiosity, competition, and a desire be better gamblers, pioneering mathematicians and scientists began to reduce wild uncertainties to tame distributions of probability and statistical inferences. But, even as unknown unknowns became known unknowns, our pessimism made us believe that some problems were unsolvable and our intuition misled us. Worse, as we realized how omnipresent and varied uncertainty is, we encountered chaos, quantum mechanics, and the limitations of our predictive power.

Bestselling author Professor Ian Stewart explores the history and mathematics of uncertainty. Touching on gambling, probability, statistics, financial and weather forecasts, censuses, medical studies, chaos, quantum physics, and climate, he makes one thing clear: a reasonable probability is the only certainty.

Limba
Engleza
Autor
Professor Ian Stewart
Data Publicarii
2020
Editura
Profile Books Ltd
Latime
12.9
Inaltime
19.8
Tip Coperta
Paperback
Nr Pag
304
Subtitlu
The Mathematics of Uncertainty
Bic
PBB, PBT
Editia
Main
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