Gigerenzer Gerd, Swijtink Zeno, Porter Theodore, Daston Lorraine, Beatty John, Kruger Lorenz:
The Empire Of Chance
How Probability Changed Science And Everyday Life
Series editor: QuentinSkinner
Cambridge University Press (United Kingdom), 1990
Paperback, 360 pages
Size: 229x152 mm
ISBN: 9780521398381
ISBN-10: 052139838X
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Zeno Swijtink
State University Of New York, Buffalo
Theodore Porter
University Of Virginia
Lorraine Daston
Brandeis University, Massachusetts
John Beatty
University Of Minnesota
Lorenz Kruger
Georg-August-Universitat, Gottingen, Germany
The Empire Of Chance
An interdisciplinary work which tells how quantitative ideas of chance transformed the natural and social sciences, as well as daily life over the past three centuries, centering on how these technical innovations remade conceptions of nature, mind and society.
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