Ten great ideas about chance
By: Persi Diaconis, Brian Skyrms
Contributors: Skyrms, Brian, author
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780691174167
Subjects: Probabilities; Chance
Description: "In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, gamblers and mathematicians transformed the idea of chance from a mystery into the discipline of probability, setting the stage for a series of breakthroughs that enabled or transformed innumerable fields, from gambling, mathematics, statistics, economics, and finance to physics and computer science. This book tells the story of ten great ideas about chance and the thinkers who developed them, tracing the philosophical implications of these ideas as well as their mathematical impact." --
Table of contents: title: 1. Measurement; title: 2. Judgment; title: 3. Psychology; title: 4. Frequency; title: 5. Mathematics; title: 6. Inverse Inference; title: 7. Unification; title: 8. Algorithmic Randomness; title: 9. Physical chance; title: 10. Induction.