Do Dice Play God?
The Mathematics of Uncertainty
New York : Basic Books, 2019.
Format: Book
Edition: First US edition.
Description: 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bestselling author Professor Ian Stewart explores the history and mathematics of uncertainty. Touching on gambling, probability, statistics, financial and weather forecasts, censuses, medical studies, chaos, quantum physics, and climate, he makes one thing clear: a reasonable probability is the only certainty.
Contents:
Six ages of uncertainty -- Reading the entrails -- Roll of the dice -- Toss of a coin -- Too much information -- Fallacies and paradoxes -- Social physics -- How certain are you? -- Law and disorder -- Unpredicting the predictable -- The weather factory -- Remedial measures -- Financial fortune-telling -- Our Bayesian brain -- Quantum uncertainty -- Do dice play God? -- Exploiting uncertainty -- Unknown unknowns.
ISBN:
9781541699472
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MATH Statistics Ste | Southeast | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references and index.