The Empire of Chance
Subtitle: How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life (Ideas in Context)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: October 26, 1990
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780521398381
Subjects: Epistemology, theory of knowledge; History of ideas, intellectual history; History of science; Philosophy of science; Mathematics; Political Science; Probability & Statistics - General; Politics/International Relations; Philosophy & Social Aspects; History & Theory - General; Mathematics / Statistics; Political Science / History & Theory; Political Science-History & Theory - General; Probabilities; Probabilities Probabilities; Science-Philosophy & Social Aspects
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.