Ten Great Ideas about Chance

by Persi Diaconis and Brian Skyrms

Book Overview

A fascinating account of the breakthrough ideas that transformed probability and statistics

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691174164
• ISBN13: 9780691174167
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.4"