| Description |
292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Audience |
Adult |
| Subject |
Probabilities -- Popular works.
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Chaotic behavior in systems -- Popular works.
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| Genre |
Nonfiction.
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| ISBN |
9781541699472 hardcover |
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1541699475 hardcover |
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