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- catalog abstract ""This book is aimed at the trouble with trying to learn about probability. A story of the misconceptions and difficulties civilization overcame in progressing toward probabilistic thinking, Randomness is also a skillful account of what makes the science of probability so daunting in our own time." "To acquire a (correct) intuition of chance is not easy to begin with, and moving from an intuitive sense to a formal notion of probability presents further problems. Author Deborah Bennett traces the path this process takes in an individual trying to come to grips with concepts of uncertainty and fairness, and charts the parallel course by which societies have developed ideas about randomness and determinacy."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10584729.
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description ""This book is aimed at the trouble with trying to learn about probability. A story of the misconceptions and difficulties civilization overcame in progressing toward probabilistic thinking, Randomness is also a skillful account of what makes the science of probability so daunting in our own time." "To acquire a (correct) intuition of chance is not easy to begin with, and moving from an intuitive sense to a formal notion of probability presents further problems. Author Deborah Bennett traces the path this process takes in an individual trying to come to grips with concepts of uncertainty and fairness, and charts the parallel course by which societies have developed ideas about randomness and determinacy."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. Chance encounters -- 2. Why resort to chance? -- 3. When the gods played dice -- 4. Figuring the odds -- 5. Mind games for gamblers -- 6. Chance or necessity? -- 7. Order in apparent chaos -- 8. Wanted: random numbers -- 9. Randomness as uncertainty -- 10. Paradoxes in probability.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-231) and index.".
- catalog extent "238 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Randomness.".
- catalog identifier "0674107454 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Randomness.".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press,".
- catalog relation "Randomness.".
- catalog subject "519.2 21".
- catalog subject "Chance Popular works.".
- catalog subject "Probabilities History.".
- catalog subject "Probabilities Popular works.".
- catalog subject "Probabilities.".
- catalog subject "QA273 .B46 1998".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Chance encounters -- 2. Why resort to chance? -- 3. When the gods played dice -- 4. Figuring the odds -- 5. Mind games for gamblers -- 6. Chance or necessity? -- 7. Order in apparent chaos -- 8. Wanted: random numbers -- 9. Randomness as uncertainty -- 10. Paradoxes in probability.".
- catalog title "Randomness / Deborah J. Bennett.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "Popular works. fast".
- catalog type "text".