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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.
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The Empire of Chance, Gerd Gigerenzer
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- Released
- 1990
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- Title
- The Empire of Chance
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Gerd Gigerenzer
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Released
- 1990
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 358
- ISBN10
- 052139838X
- ISBN13
- 9780521398381
- Series
- Ideas in Context
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Historical Themes, Science & Math, Philosophical Topics, Science, Mathematics, History of Science
- Rating
- 4.1 out of 5
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- 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.