The Age of Chance
Subtitle: Gambling in Western Culture
Publisher: Routledge
Published: March 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780415263092
First sentence: In the twenty-first century, chance is understood as a constituent part of the world, codified in the rules of probability theory and, in the branches of quantum mechanics and chaos theory, an irreducible feature of modern science.