The Empire of Chance
Subtitle: How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life (Ideas in Context)
Edition: Reprint edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 28, 1989
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780521331159
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; Political Science / History & Theory; Probabilities; Science/Mathematics
First sentence: In July of 1654 Blaise Pascal wrote to Pierre Fermat about a gambling problem which came to be known as the Problem of Points: Two players are interrupted in the midst of a game of chance, with the score uneven at that point.