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The Empire of Chance: How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life - Ideas in Context
Gigerenzer, Gerd (Universitat Konstanz, Germany)
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.
360 pages, indexes, references
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | October 26, 1990 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521398381 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 360 |
| Dimensions | 155 × 229 × 24 mm · 542 g |
| Language | English |
| Series Editor | Daston, Lorraine |
| Series Editor | Ross, Dorothy |
| Series Editor | Skinner, Quentin |
| Series Editor | Tully, James |
