Reasoning about luck
Subtitle: probability and its uses in physics
By: Vinay Ambegaokar, Department of Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Publisher: Dover Publications, Inc.
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780486807010
Subjects: Probability measures; Statistical physics
Description: "Praised by the American Journal of Physics as "an outstanding and ambitious textbook for nonscience majors," this book introduces the uses of probability and statistics in the physical sciences, focusing on thermal and statistical physics. Only some familiarity with basic algebra is needed to understand explanations of many basic concepts"--
Notes: "This Dover edition, first published in 2017, is an unabridged, slightly corrected republication of the work originally published by Cambridge University Press, New York, in 1996. A brief addendum is also new to this Dover edition"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.