Chances Are . . .: Adventures in Probability Paperback - 2007
by Michael Kaplan; Ellen Kaplan
Combining philosophical and historical background, "Chances Are" is a lay person's journey into the realm of probability--from poker to politics, weather to war, Monte Carlo to mortality. Illustrations.
Summary
Our lives are played out in the arena of chance. However little we recognize it in our day-to-day existence, we are always riding the odds, seeking out certainty but settlingreluctantlyfor likelihood, building our beliefs on the shadowy props of probability. Chances Are is the story of mans millennia-long search for the tools to manage the recurrent but unpredictableto help us prevent, or at least mitigate, the seemingly random blows of disaster, disease, and injustice. In these pages, we meet the brilliant individuals who developed the first abstract formulations of probability, as well as the intrepid visionaries who recognized their practical applicationsfrom gamblers to military strategists to meteorologists to medical researchers, from blackjack to our own mortality.
First line
We search for certainty and call what we find destiny.
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- Title Chances Are . . .: Adventures in Probability
- Author Michael Kaplan; Ellen Kaplan
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Paperback Ed
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Adult Hc/Tr, U.S.A.
- Date 2007-03-01
- Features Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780143038344 / 0143038346
- Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 7.94 x 5.36 x 0.73 in (20.17 x 13.61 x 1.85 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Dewey Decimal Code 519.2
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